skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but what if it was never a fact. 'Fat makes you fat' or similar falsification that have real impact to society[0]

We shouldn't attribute everything to malice, but there are clear issues in science:

'Too many of the findings that fill the academic either are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis

Last year researchers at one biotech firm, Amgen, found they could reproduce just six of 53 “landmark” studies in cancer research. Earlier, a group at Bayer, a drug company, managed to repeat just a quarter of 67 similarly important papers. A leading computer scientist frets that three-quarters of papers in his subfield are bunk. In 2000-10 roughly 80,000 patients took part in clinical trials based on research that was later retracted because of mistakes or improprieties.

Careerism also encourages exaggeration and the cherry-picking of results. In order to safeguard their exclusivity, the leading journals impose high rejection rates: in excess of 90% of submitted manuscripts. The most striking findings have the greatest chance of making it onto the page.

Conversely, failures to prove a hypothesis are rarely even offered for publication, let alone accepted. “Negative results” now account for only 14% of published papers, down from 30% in 1990. Yet knowing what is false is as important to science as knowing what is true. The failure to report failures means that researchers waste money and effort exploring blind alleys already investigated by other scientists.'[1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...
[1] http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-re...

[2] Alan Sokal - Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Hoax-Science-Philosophy-Cultur...
[3] How to Lie with Statistics - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...
[4] Nassim Taleb 'Incerto', twitter.com/nntaleb
Ember seems really cool, but I've never had anything big enough I've wanted to use it on. In fact, I have not used a JavaScript framework for a while (unless you count an Ionic app a few months back. Ember's learning curve seems a bit steep too.
There's already a hack for it https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5dcgts/how_to_remov... , and it's likely to be enabled for the Rift when Touch is released.
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Actually that would be 13.0!
I recently made a decision to stop running my own mail server, figured it was long, long overdue to pay someone to handle my email for me.

Stories like this are why I didn't pick gmail for this service, which would have otherwise been my first choice.
I can't click the eye. The crosshair remains a crosshair and is actually under the toolbar. If I click "on" (under) the eye, it marks whatever location happens to be there.

This is on Safari and the Jerusalem demo.
How about interviewing technologist-teachers who are teaching youth how to program?
I've had similar experiences on Facebook. Facts don't matter. Even when linking to proof that something is fake news, the fake news doesn't get removed or addressed.

This article about how Macedonian high school students are behind a lot of the fake news is worth reading:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
I'm not that poster, but I try to stay well informed while avoiding any kind of spam and mass media. I understood the general sentiment of the country, but I didn't understand why we'd regressed so much. Classic media always promoted some amount of fear, but now it's competing against digital media... a world filled with pandering and blatant lies. There's no more journalistic integrity or accountability.

If knowledge is the life-blood of democracy, America is suffering from leukemia...
It would drastically reduce the voting power of several red states. Only recently (since 2000) has the EC being different than the popular vote been a problem. Both times it's gone in the republicans favour.

It would definitely be radical change though.
Yes.

1. There are some edge cases where it is still useful and it would be way more painful to reimplement it in vanilla js (though maybe still possible). But in these edge cases why bother when:

2. In any largish project invariably _something_ will require jquery. Think Bootstrap or some widget library the boss/users absolutely want or something some "UI" person built themselves.
I can't believe so many people actually use facebook. It's a time suck, a voyeuristic and narcissistic view into people's lives, a government database, etc...
Well, it makes sense that blacks are more stoped by the police in the USA than whites, since they are the ones committing - by a great margin - most of the violent crimes. The black community in the USA (representing 12% of the population) commits more homicides and attempted homicides than all the white community (which is 5x times larger). Thereby, of course they have more interaction with the police.
Yeah, very legal.

The "right of first sale" means that you can't be sued (well, you can be sued but they would lose) if you sell a book you own. It doesn't say that the publisher of that book must continue to sell you additional copies or that the author won't give you a dirty look if you pass in the street or that someone may take steps that don't involve suing you for copyright infringement to discourage your activity.

This is, by the way, the same trick that powers RHEL – the binaries are all GPL, so you can totally redistribute them to anyone. If you do though, RHEL will cancel your account.

You own your data but not the servers on which that data is stored, so you can't compel Google to give you access to it, any more than you can compel me to produce your comment from my browser cache if you lose it. Refusing to give you access to their servers definitely isn't theft.

Very legal. Arguably unethical, but that's a different question.
Unrelated: but I shut down my Gmail and went to Outlook because Gmail doesn't have any good variants of my name. Outlook on the other hand, does.

Is there a "name" problem faced by email providers?
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>Take your elitist ration and logic elsewhere

Did you read my post? It was pointing out that that the parent's post was lacking ration and logic and was resorting to ad homs, strawmen, and appeals to authority.
Much like a landowner owning all of the land around your property cannot reasonably deny you the right to cross their property to get to yours, I'd argue if Google does not own your data on their service, they must grant you access to that data at bare minimum.

I'm not super well versed in the details, but my suggested reading would be discussion of easement rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement
Ah, thanks. I should have done some Googling.

Her father's with USAID, which does help explain the foreign policy connections.

USAID is much more powerful than is commonly recognized, with an unclassified budget about twice that of the CIA, and is frequently involved in international strategic matters.
Also the SA purge resulted in extrajudicial executions, possibly even worse than a Twitter ban.
10% weekly revenue growth would be great. That means a company doing $1M in revenue at t=0 will be doing $1.6T in revenue in 3 years.

I'm always dubious of these sorts of metrics.
I read the article.

Most people acknowledge the benefits of multiculturalism and enjoy it. Art, music, food, festivals, etc. People enjoy relationships with immigrants because they bring a different perspective. NYC is the best case of this. A true melting pot.

Economies need immigrants for GDP growth.

Its a win-win.

Integration is key though. And because we enjoy the benefits, it is our responsibility.

Controlled immigration is a core part of every country although maybe not so much in Europe at the moment.

We live in a democracy, and everyone gets to vote for what makes them happy.

If people don't enjoy immigrants's culture then that's fine, but they have to respect (via democracy) that most people do.

The article uses a single anecdote of a pensioner who is robbed of her lively-hood by immigrants.

But are the circumstances of this kind of situation exclusively caused by immigrants? Or could the same thing occur with a recession? Or with gentrification?

When you look at one example, it certainly seems bad. But the generalised situation of "feeling like an alien in the town you live in", is not exclusively caused by immigrants. If this is a problem, we should address this problem universally. Anti-immigration is a hammer looking for nails.
These people are in dissonance and don't understand they need to do the work to get out of it because it's too damn easy to get the work for free off the Internet.

Those who know better, do better.
Wow, this is so messed up.

And for doing something that I believe the law mandates companies to allow their customers to do, i.e. resell their purchases.
We have to stop being naive about our email accounts.

My recommendation is to buy a domain name use that as the primary email.

It may cost in total around $100/year but it is definitely worth it.
> was informed that my position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated for business reasons. Consequently.

Business reasons to not have a head of automation for an Operating System? It truly could be the case, but honestly I'd be ok if someone investigated companies like Apple to see if there's an illegal pattern of letting go people over the age of 40.
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Interesting! This is how I play Pictionary, by the way: not how I would draw something (I'm a decent artist) but in the most stereotypical way, exaggerating every feature.
Fake Election News Outperformed Real News on Facebook in Final Election Months
I have to point out again that the media is making money by manipulating the masses. If you not pay for it, you are the product. Your time, attention, data, money and also your vote. FB is not better or worse than any other media company. Only more efficient.
May I ask who you chose?
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Which is a shame because that is one I really want to play once I get a headset.

Has there been much others solving for this type of motion sickness in VR where it isn't just latency/performance related?
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444

:D
I think its worth asking here:

Why do we value free speech?

Is it because we would like a variety of ideas to be heard, even if some of them are unsavory in the current social landscape? That we do better when we are open to a more diverse range of influences? If this is the case, I think we can't simply think of free speech in an active sense. I think the case could be made that the language of these accounts is designed to devalue the voices of particular people, thereby limiting their speech.

I don't really have a solution here. I'm made extremely uncomfortable by this, but my current line of thought is that if an actor initiates the limitation on another's right to expression, then they are the one whose speech should be limited. Think of it sort of like free speech self-defense.

Kind of tangential, but this Mark Ames piece on censorship is really good: https://pando.com/2015/02/04/the-geometry-of-censorship-and-...

[edit] just took a closer look and I'm not really familiar with those accts aside from RV, so I can't really speak on harassment here
It would be great if you got graycat to spill the beans about his website.
That is impressive. I don't care about it quite as much though, because that's OS.
Like I said, to an English-speaking (arguably American, as Bloomberg is based in Manhattan) audience, it makes little sense to phrase it the other way. You compare the unknown with the known, not the other way around.

Compare:

"Pachinko, the Japanese version of a slot machine."

"A slot machine, the American version of pachinko."

Which version is intended for an American audience? Which for an audience familiar with Japan? There's nothing nefarious here.

If that stands out to you, I think you may be looking too hard for bias to the point where you're seeing things that aren't there. Keeping an eye out for bias is a good thing. It can be sometimes difficult to keep it calibrated.

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. I'm done.
In a sane world Google would get a swift and harsh judgement against them for this.

Don't be evil. lol.

Anyone remember the glory days of the first sale doctrine? Before we started letting companies essentially make arbitrary binding rules at their whim.
The email links definitely contain tokens - not only will they log you in but the articles they generate on the page will reflect the order of articles in the email you received, as opposed to the most recent articles on your feed.
Yet it played a big role in swinging several important democratic events so far: Brexit and Trump
It doesn't matter what I think is true. It matters what the people being banned think is true.

If you delete their account they won't learn anything or cease to exist, they'll just be angry at you somewhere else and come back later.

BTW: https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/798959676855455744
If one believes that Apple has always been an integration leader rather than a technology leader, then the idea follows that there may exist points in time where the technological state-of-the-art and consumer desires simply have no overlap that allows for new products on the level of the iPod/iPhone/iPad.

Apple apparently believed smartcars were there, but I'd guess their implementation of the technology wasn't hitting targets. It does still seems bizarre they aren't pushing VR/AR given their creative-professional heavy userbase.
> You can no longer communicate with Google users with the XMPP client of your choice. They require you to use only their client.

That's not quite true.

Google Talk is still available, and you can use that in place of Hangouts, and you can use third-party clients with it.

However, you cannot use third-party clients for group chats, and you cannot speak to users on other XMPP servers (there is no true federation).
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Just curious here, but why are people outraged over this? They clearly violated Google's policy, and there were repercussions. Those rules are there to protect Google; perhaps their only legal recourse to cover themselves after a rule violation is to suspend the account?
>I didn't delete my facebook but I did unfollow every person and group on the app and it has been quite pleasurable to have an empty newsfeed.

Same. Now its just a messaging platform now, its great
Why such a verbose syntax for pattern matching?
Pretty incredible - especially with how little that a hardware product purchase has to do with a user's data. Imagine for a moment that google required people to have an account to access all their services - that they have the ability to cut you off arbitrarily across ALL their services for a TOS violation should scare anyone. Imagine if facebook cut your account and thereby ties to many of your friends and acquaintances for promoting a competing ad company?

These companies have lulled us into their systems with good intentions and free services, and now they wield tremendous power over our lives. I don't actually want to go back before the days where these services were fragmented and it was very difficult to juggle many closed services instead of a few. Still, its what happens when the company owns the whole vertical of individual user's data.
Yes, Google has a handful of schema.org schemas for rich snippets, structured data.[0] It's like Google's approach is to help you help them make nice search results to help you. It is definitely not some sort of proprietary thing using standardized structured data snippets.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc...
For people in China where Facebook is not accessible, however, the same things happen in WeChat, especially in its Moments timeline which more or less resembles the one from Facebook. Fake `news', rumors, (unreliable) hints for health/food and click-baits are just more than popular.

WeChat did provide a process to flag inappropriate articles, but people around the age of my parents just won't stop forwarding.
Sounds like a problem with your friends, not Facebook.
That doesn't work for everyone. For me it's random, some days it works, some days it doesn't.
Why do you assume the lack of women tech speakers implies they lack tech skills?
As a quick aside, Google EU is based in Ireland, and under Ireland's data protection legislation you _are_ entitled to data the Google stores (including whatever tracking they're doing that you don't normally have access to).

> Under Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003,
> you have a right to obtain a copy, clearly explained, of any
> information relating to you kept on computer or in a structured
> manual filing system or intended for such a system by any entity or organisation
When targeting an ES6/ES2015 compatible runtime like node or electron (which VS Code runs on), typescript essentially just strips away the type information. It only generates boilerplate when the underlying runtime doesn't support the parts of the Javascript you use.
This is one of those times when I wish HN comments sections allowed to embed images... [1]

Let this be a lesson, when a company goes mainstream due the eccentricity of its CEO instead than the quality or proved innovation of its services/products that's a red flag, even more so when respected professionals on the area claim the progress such company claims to have made is not feasible...

I have a hunch that Magic Leap will end up being some kind of epic disappointment along the lines of Theranos.

[1] https://blondeempire1.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/simpsonsal...
You mean like SJW crazies "peacefully protest" any event that tries to dispute what they are selling by trying to get it banned, sabotage it, block people from attending, disrupt it?
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No, they compile to IL and run it with Mono (embedded as a native lib). Optionally you can AOT-compile it to native code.
What if you pay google a monthly/yearly fee for gmail? Can they cancel your account then?
Then why change it? Why the treadmill?

Why send the rest of the ecosystem scurrying about, chasing their tails?

And if the ecosystem gets the rug abruptly pulled out from under it one time, then how many more times will their efforts get trashed? Probably as many times as is necessary to shake them loose.

No announcements, no roadmap, no communication channel, just a sudden upgrade and everything starts timing out, or throwing errors.

Someone threw the killswitch. And they'll toggle it as often as needed, to cut out whatever the target percentage of attrition is.
Are you sure this is the case? Is your livelihood or security really dependent on daily churn of news?

Here's a thought: what if most news is misinformation?
> the engineering school can feel proud that they produced a graduate

It says in the article he graduated with a degree in Biology, but point taken.
And with e-mail, that's often a means of authentication. Many services won't change your e-mail without sending an e-mail to your prior service.

You can essentially get locked out of your Steam account.
"This after a different copy of Windows 10 killed my previous computer motherboard dead during a forced "

Wow, that's quite a claim!
It seems to me his family was ultimately incredibly supportive (granted, they were initially skeptical) and are doing their best to balance their interests. His parents were willing to sell their house to cover legal fees. His grandfather referred him to a lawyer and supported his grandson in the meeting with company lawyers. Also their statements regarding him were very heart felt and positive. They mention the relationship with the grandfather being strained but that could very well be a result of PI surveillance and impending litigation making discussions risky, so it's not necessarily anything personal.
For a while. But nonviolent protest does have a history of effectiveness in the long term.
I understood your "Sorry for the offtopic" to refer to your entire comment. I expected the quote to be relevant or representative with respect to the post you linked to.
Then maybe the author would do well not to frame it as such by avoiding lines like "one of the greatest foreign operations in decades"
Fake news, hoaxes and scams existed long before Facebook. People just use Facebook more, things can spread faster, and all in all it amplifies an existing problem.

Email forwards (and in their newer reincarnation, at least in the Middle East, Whatsapp forwards) spread false news for as long as I remember using the internet. A part time job for me was to respond and debunk these emails when they landed in my inbox. I even put in the time to explain to people how to spot false information (e.g. if the email ends with "forward this to x number of people or else" is 100% a hoax or a scam).

Maybe Facebook -- as our times' Master Switch -- can fix this, and for the first time we'll be happy with centralization.
"Doesn't look like anything to me"
The title is alluding to James Bond. Poorly.
Let's not forget TED.
Where pretty much anything related to concurrency is concerned we've been busy reliving the 70's for most of the last decade. Locking, asynchronous I/O, you name it.

Hell even Microsoft had I/O Completion ports back in what, 2003 or so? Or am I wrong and it was a lot earlier? The coolest things in Javascript land were all done by Microsoft first and everyone (me especially) can't bring themselves to acknowledge that.
Cheese off the government enough, and they'll freeze everything, bank accounts, ability to be hired, your freedom to not be in jail, everything, not just "your account with them".

The problem isn't the "profit" bit, it's the "everything" bit.
That is impressive. And scary.

But if your box's physical security has been compromised, you're already screwed in any case.
I would have, but I have a Windows box. Our OP has a Mac, so testing the script would be hard.
"When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia"

What version of Silicon Valley is this?

"Ascend, an Asian-American professional organization based in New York, found that although 27 percent of professionals working at those companies are Asian or Asian-American, fewer than 19 percent of managers, and just under 14 percent of executives, are." [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/05/17/407478606/often-employees-rare...
It is certainly not limited to America.
Fair enough.

I mean it was Wikileaks that more or less decided this election, but sure... let's all be worried about Facebook's unchecked power, unaccountable methods and unknown motives.

After all, it's not as if one of the Presidential candidates, now President, implied that the entirety of American media was controlled directly by the DNC, and thus not to be trusted, while praising and legitimizing Wikileaks by name. There's no possibility of a dangerous political or cultural precedent having been set by having half the country believe in nothing other than what Wikileaks publishes.

Facebook is evil, but I don't believe it's the elephant in the room.
I miss the myspace days when we just modified our profiles and chatted with each other. There was no "news feed." Facebook was unbearable before the election, I stopped logging in more than once a week just to check on family. I don't care what anyone's opinion of the day is on the political issue of the day.
...or your monitor, keyboard, & mouse to work with any content.
I am also interested.

A while back I set up email using my personal domain using Google Apps after discarding the idea of managing the while thing on a vps and after checking out a few providers like Protonmail. It basically came down to price and convenience; Google was on par with others for price and I really like the Inbox interface.