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> media outposts have become too connected, too hungry at the teat of the powerful for any scoop at all now that they do not have regional monopolies on information.

I had this realization 7 or 8 years ago (just before the financial crisis started) when reading a book on the history of Lazard, the investment bank. At some point towards the end (i.e. closer to our days) it mentioned that one of its then main executives (Steven Rattner) was a very close friend with the NYTimes publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

Come the financial crisis and the US car industry almost going bust Steven Rattner is appointed as car tzar (whatever that is), even though he had no experience in managing anything automotive-related, it was all based on "let's choose people from a small clique of our friends and friends of friends", where that clique includes investment bankers, newspaper owners, venture capitalists, politicians, "media personalities" and the like. This is not how a true democratic and capitalistic system should work.
NO: I Am A Black Male Bernie Bro and Jill Stein Supporter In Defense of Trump and Trump Supporters.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbEcB9OCn0&t=6s
Haha! I am curious how long will it take to have it completely cracked.
Yes, the previous projects preceding Kubernetes have a history of being Star Trek references, specifically to the Borg [1].

As to Heptio’s name, Beda explained: “When we were helping create Kubernetes, we pitched it as ‘Seven of Nine,’ a ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ character who’s a former Borg drone. That was a reference to the Borg, a code name for Google’s internal version of Kubernetes, the thing that runs its search and apps and ads. It’s total geek culture. We wanted a friendlier Borg. That name turned into ‘Project Seven.’ When we went public with Kubernetes, we didn’t want to lose track of the ‘seven.’ The Kubernetes logo has seven sides. ‘Hept’ is the Greek prefix for ‘seven,’ and it’s a way to pull the ‘seven’ through.”

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2016/ever-come-kooky-kubernetes-name...
I grew up in Kansas. There were plenty of trees in the towns, that were planted by the settlers. I didn't see any effort whatsoever at maintaining them. There were trees in our yard, and our house bordered a greenbelt of trees. They grew just fine without assistance.
This article is fake "news" (or "coverage") in its own right. Its main purpose is anchoring[1] the reader. It attempts to impress the notions that fake information on Facebook is a significant factor in politics. Conveniently, it's published right after an American election where mainstream media like NYT took a serious blow to their credibility.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

Ask yourself the following questions. Is this article covering some specific recent event? Is there any investigative journalism involved? No and no. So what is it "informing" us about, exactly? All I see is a bunch of random stuff pulled together to promote a pre-determined meta-narrative.

If you don't believe in meta-narratives, just look below the text to "Related Coverage" box on the page:

STATE OF THE ART
Social Media’s Globe-Shaking Power NOV. 16, 2016
Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites NOV. 14, 2016
Facebook, in Cross Hairs After Election, Is Said to Question Its Influence NOV. 12, 2016
The Hoaxes, Fake News and Misinformation We Saw on Election Day NOV. 8, 2016

This is what high-grade propaganda looks like. It doesn't use outright lies, but rather relies on reframing, anchoring, deliberate name-dropping and rote repetition to establish certain associations and emotional responses. I find it infinitely more sinister than some outrageous bullshit appearing on Facebook.

And it's disconcerting to see just how hard some outlets try to (morally if not otherwise) discredit the outcome of the elections right now. NYT is actually not the worst in this regard. Just open the home pages of Washington Post or The Atlantic. Political FUD stacked on top of more political FUD. Maybe I have a memory lapse, but I've never seen anything quite like it.
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Too drunk to look now but I've read about such companies in the past. They're even willing to pay for older accounts with good karma on big sites.

Try googling "Koch brothers astroturfing" I remember some news about their climate change astroturfing recently.

Maybe also "Tony Abbott fake twitter likes". The Australian PM was paying for twitter likes.
I have some bad recollections of some criticisms of GMO optimism I've heard:

* Current GMOs do not increase yields so significantly as to be considered a necessity for competitive efficiency

* Generally fewer GMO strains are available than non-GMO strains, lowering biodiversity on GMO fields, and some GMO plants (such as Roundup Ready) don't make sense to plant on mixed GMO/non-GMO fields, lowering biodiversity

* GMOs cost extra money (for research, production, quality control, profits)

Overall it is possible that the downsides may outweigh the benefits, and particularly since the benefits (of increased yields/decreased pest issues) are uncertain it is possible for farmers to make "losing bets" which is unfortunate particularly given the use of the "banner of science" to advertise the hypothetical promise of GMOs. While there are still significant advantages to many GMOs, the popular-among-nerds meta-contrarian position that GMOs represent a new lease on the Green Revolution and a necessity for the survival of human life has rather shaky epistemic footing.
The registry hives are still system files, and so if you want to edit a particular user's registry, you need to show them.
> selling 57 million Mail.ru accounts

Seriously? I can give you free access to credentials from 164,611,595 LinkedIn accounts right now. This data has been copied and sold many times over with zero help from any government.
Long but fascinating account of a black hat SEO whomused to make lots of money, but then his approach stoppd working as Google got better at detecting black hat techniques, so he switched to white hat.

I found it really interesting, but then I used to work for Google on the other side of the equation.
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His prices for pounds are off because his math is wrong. $10/kg is actually $4.53/lb, not $3.
The amount of perverse incentives it creates is insane. Instead of investors being forced to slowly accumulate ZEC, they are given it almost in bulk, and are in a perfect position to manipulate and short the market.
> To win the election one needs electoral college votes. I've heard she had a stellar team and a tremendous experience as a politician. You think they didn't know and instead went for the popular vote?

I believe both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump targeted swing states, neglecting the rest of the country. Clearly Donald Trump did this better. I'm not fond of either of those candidates, but neither do I mean to blame them. Above all it is the electoral system that has failed.
> seed the RNG

This is something that can't be repeated often enough! Especially when running unit tests.
> If you miss a release from a name like Ricardo Villalobos or one of the Romanians, good luck buying them from discogs with hundreds of euros. What.cd of course had them available.

Yes, I'm not a fan of vinyl-only releases either. Whenever I have to buy vinyl, I do it rather reluctantly - while I actually like the idea of physical releases, I know I'll rip it, add it to my digital library and consume it from there. It's a necessity rather than a pleasure, but I'm not willing to pass on those Mood Hut or Music From Memory releases, let alone old rarities.
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Actually, the Trump reporting was an eye opener for me. I'm very left wing and I've always thought the concept of "Liberal media" was retarded.

How wrong I was.
It seems based on Tryton (name is seen in the screenshots), which is a fork of OpenERP.

Tryton has taken a wildly different path than it's ancestor OpenERP. https://www.tryton.org/

OpenERP is now known as Odoo. https://www.odoo.com/
Can you expand on "US=Russia"? or link the press conference in question.
Shiii now that just happens on every conference call and WebEx on the planet!

It is amazing how quickly tech has changed. In about 1991, my father telephoned us from the North Slope of Alaska, via satellite link. The RTT must have been at least 2 seconds.

20 years later I rolled into Prudhoe Bay on a motorbike, looked down at my iPhone, and saw I had 5 bars of 3G service, no satellite delay. And enough free wifi bandwidth to stream Top Gear.
Go ahead and provide it, Russian or not.
Good point.

I think there are some sources where it is defined in a more rigorous manner, Chomsky and Herman's Manufacturing Consent book is one example I like. They tried as much as possible to document bias in reporting for similar instances in corporate controlled media in US. There are a series of well documented cases.

In conversation, I agree, the term "bias" when it comes to news means "doesn't say things I like"
The prices are artificially set anyway.

I don't think animal friendly practices, environmental issues, waste, health-care (antibiotics), etc. is factored in.
Exactly. The coinbase could've been time-locked and only spendable after a block height.
From my smartphone it shows Google Play and App store badges, maybe it's from the desktop only that it asks for your mobile number?
It sounds very interesting, for sure, but the announcement is a little thin on details. The OS is apparently based around a microkernel. Which sounds good, but AFAIK, microkernels are comparatively popular in the embedded space (think QNX, L4) - so that choice is not in itself revolutionary.

They mention signatures, and it kind of sounds as if the OS will refuse to execute any non-signed code. Again, sounds like a good idea in principle, but remember how Stuxnet came with - IIRC - two valid signatures created with stolen keys. It might be better than nothing, but to an attacker with sufficiently deep pockets, no quantum computers are needed.

Of course, those are just random thoughts popping into my head. I should wait for more details before passing judgment. A (verifiably?) secure OS for embedded and "IoT" devices would be very desirable, that much is certain.
Sounds like this could be a way to terraform Venus if the bacteria can float.
Totally agree. I think the disappointment is that in its earlier days there was hope that the internet would end up changing the world for the better but it ended up just magnifying whatever good and bad already existed in world before it came to the scene.

Still, I wouldn't want to go back to pre-internet era. With all the crap, it seems the bottom line is still a gain to humanity and hopefully that gain will increase with time.
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They're frames extracted from video as a convenient way to get a large enough training set (50000 images).
A mirror was placed on the moon. Organizations all over the world have pointed lasers at it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experime...
> All the popular operating systems aren’t designed with security in mind

Kaspy OS runs on a switch, and they're talking about popular operating systems, so in the same vein, OpenBSD wouldn't be a popular secure OS for e.g. routers?

But hey, I'd be really happy if they based it on seL4 and formally verified their security concepts. That would be a real game-changer. OTOH I'm really sceptical until they provide any relevant details.
>Fake news is a real issue that deserves to be reported about, it's not a scapegoat

It's too late to start treating fake news as a real problem after such an ugly an biased coverage of the election on their part. No one trusts them anymore
On the basis that the grander the announcement, the greater the motivation to break it, I reckon about 20 minutes.
I was looking into PLBs earlier this evening, for obvious reasons and, since the topic was mentioned here, and since this might be helpful to people, I'll describe something notable I found.

On a site called outdoorgearlab.com, which has reviews of a number of units, one stood out in particular for being simple, well-reviewed (there and elsewhere) and relatively inexpensive.

The ACR ResQlink 406 Personal Locator Beacon, reviewed here [0], is around $250-$300, has a 5-year battery and doesn't require any subscription/data-plan, like some units that can send msgs do -- it just reliably sends S.O.S. messages to the relevant satellites in orbit (and it will send such messages at 5 watts, which is around 2.5 - 12x the power used by some other units -- helpful when sending data to a satellite).

There's a ResQlink+ model now too -- it's buoyant (the ResQlink is not) so it floats (but doesn't come w/a case, from what I read and is about 20 grams heavier).

[0] http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Personal-Locator-Beacon-Review...
Any thinking person recognizes that in the function "votes(issue) > X%" X isn't fixed to 50. I think people should get a say in proportion to how much it affects them and having X be 100% is a perfectly sane and optimal democratic decision process.
Good point. The same might be said about voters' own behaviour. Even if the campaigns had been the same, people would probably have voted differently without the electoral college. (By which I mean more people would have actually voted outside the swing states, rather than that people who did vote would have voted differently.)

The electoral college distorts not only the results of presidential elections, but also the conduct of presidential election campaigns.
I must admit that I haven't delved deeply into Graph databases at this stage. If I can see a compelling reason that NoSQL/Graph will be a better/easier solution than pure SQL on a project, I am willing to, as an old dog, learn new tricks. ;)
I lived on a hill in Los Angeles in the 70's and 80's, putting me inside the regularly Stage One-alert smog layer there. It was horrible, but we cleaned up our act since then. More people live in L.A. now than ever and pollution is down. Not a dire enough situation, try again during summertime when it's hot.
A simple typo in your SQL DDL statement can cause 'inadvertent' database changes.

Just like you have your SQL schema defined in a central place, allow only a few select developers to make changes to it, and put any changes under extra scrutiny, you do the same when the schema is defined in your application code.

'.. but what if typos' is not a valid argument. Not in 2016. You can use code reviews, tools (compilers, static type checkers) and good software engineering practices to avoid problems due to typos.
I know you are having a go at the VCs, but you do make a good point. If good founders are wasting their time on "zombie" companies then the VCs should put their money where their mouth is and back the founders before they kill the zombie. They should be saying if you kill the current company I will put x million into your next company.
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Cracking laws in the hot sun, i fought the G and the G won!
What.cd is dead
A few years back I was compiling hardware inside an FPGA. Typical "compile" times were 2-3 hours.

I used to read a book while waiting for compiles when I was in High School.

I have test suites that take 5-20 minutes to run and I do just about everything I can to cache data to bring that time down.

I feel your pain.
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Actually, it can be a lot worse.

I had an apartment booked in st Petersburg, had been for months. My wife, Latvian, handled communication, in Russian.

Show up. Dude is visibly shocked and upset that I'm not Russian. Proceeds to "angliski blad" and "velikaia schwinoi" me, tells us apartment is closed for renovations starting today.

In Russia this is a problem - when you get a visa you have to list your accommodation - and if you diverge you stand a half decent chance of being arrested and deported, particularly if a host reports you as a no show.

We eventually found a hotel that evening, but it's left me very wary of using airbnb - and I'm a bloody white male. I can't imagine what a dark-skinned Muslim/homosexual/not just British couple/person might face.

Huh, I still don't have that refund, now that I remember. Three months ago.
This is the only reason why it is worth going through the hardships of becoming and being rich. Good luck.
Facebook advertising ROI is horrible. Not worth the effort. Sure, it works our for some but most end up learning the hard way that FB is a great way to burn cash, fast.
Idd that's called bias, and it would be naive to assume any article ever written doesn't contain some.
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> Venting one's beliefs on the internet (whether wise or moronic) is possible for everyone but the amount of impact it will make will usually depend on the amount of resources one has.

This is so false I don't understand why you would write it. I listen to political commentary from this guy on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/Styxhexenhammer666/videos and he's just some guy with a camera and a microphone and he reaches thousands of people. More than ever are people able to share their beliefs and reach a huge number of people with little to no cost.

This is what scares the powerful and rich, and this is what makes everyone equal.
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I have my turntables, a mixer and hundreds of vinyls. I've been recording them to flac format throughout the year and decided I prefer buying flac instead of physical if possible. Such a waste of resources to press plastic copies. The only plus I have to give for vinyl is that it forces the mix to be not that loud what the digital copy can be...
Sadly, this is a naive view,

Views like this created the internet and wikipedia and we need more of them. Wikipedia is still going strong thanks to them:

[1] Assuming good faith (AGF) is a fundamental principle on Wikipedia. It is the assumption that editors' edits and comments are made in good faith. Most people try to help the project, not hurt it. If this were untrue, a project like Wikipedia would be doomed from the beginning.

As an example, the story with the teens from FYROM creating false news sites for the americans[2] could be avoided with better education from both sides, not by "stopping the internet" or putting them to prison.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

2. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...
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> Was Rosa Parks anybody important when she did what she did?

These are social issues. There are no monetary interests at work.

In the (very, very) long run nobody really cares who you marry.

These are just the little things given to us to fight over so we don't notice what's really going on (i.e 3 wars, but still no healthcare? Come on.)
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I guess you'll have to trust him and his friends from the FSB (former KGB) :)
wouldn't cloudflare be more effective?
So then you start a new account and list it again. Change a letter in or the order of the address if needs be to make it look unique. There are many properties which exist multiple times on airbnb.

I live in a city in SW England, in a Georgian terraced house - the four stories above me are airbnb. The house next door is airbnb. The house two beyond that is airbnb.

This street used to be social housing, now it's an illegal hotel. I pick broken glass out of my yard weekly. I even had one of upstairs' guests just walk straight into my living room a few months back and start complaining about water pressure. Practically threw her through the door - not what I needed wedding eve. Par for the course though - last year a hen party were trying to break in through my bedroom window. I've watched the street depopulate over 36 months. I'm leaving soon too - it'll all be airbnb by the end of next year.

So, bad hosts just relist, airbnb really don't care (why on earth would they?!), and the cost to people who live near/under these modern day doss-houses is considerable.
I highly recommend reading Rich Falkvinge at [1]; he talks a lot about how copyright has to change for the modern day world.

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/
This appears to be a clear competitor to that https://www.withlocals.com
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China could be even more happy if Trump created a high import tax for products made elsewhere, as he has promised, because that would break the US dominance in the tech sector. No US company can remain internationally competitive with only US-based production while the rest of the world continues to manufacture in China. Or at least I cannot see how this could work.

But I believe that even Trump can see this problem and he won't follow through with his ludicrous campaign claims.
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> No one trusts them anymore

Disagree. I'd say that your nation is so divided that 50% doesn't trust the other 50%. That means that a large part still trusts eachother.

As an outsider, I think bias was just a small part of what was wrong with the coverage. I mean, if you know that an outlet is left or right leaning, you can place their news in a certain light.

But the coverage was all focused on the wrong issues. The right wouldn't shut up about Benghazi and e-mails. And the left was way too "OMG look at this monster". Not a word on actual policies.
As a former teaching assistant at a university, I can confirm this is true.
Crony capitalism [1] is a thing. It's hardly democratic, but it is a working capitalist system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Normaly - nuclear plants are safe.

But on humans, they aint. Humans & Technology- not even once.
The only effective solution I can think of is Tor, but then you automatically lose probably >99% of users. Everything else can be blocked easily.
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I wonder how much of the content posted in www.reddit.com/r/the_donald was organic and how much was dessiminated by paid users.

Producing graphic memes and youtube videos with remix songs is something that can't yet be automated easily but it struck me how conveniently the high quality seeds of a meme would be planted and how quickly it would filter through to the more common subreddits.
No, unfortunately it is not a joke. There are people sincerely believing that the earth is flat (some also believe it is hollow and we live inside it) and actively trying to convince others to believe the same. Search for "flat earth" on YouTube and you will see hundreds of videos by many different authors, sometimes with tens of thousands of views. They try to come up with arguments for pretty much any proof you will toss at them, like saying that things disappearing over the horizon are due to perspective or "light bending".
I tested it in Chromium really quick. I have one small remark: when opening an article obtained by a peer (a green link) in a new tab, it just opens it in the same tab.
I suggest you read the FAQ:

https://www.producthunt.com/faq

That answers your question.
Haha ok yes, that makes more sense ;)
I've had good experiences with professionally written descriptions and not going too cheap on the price. Any straying and it's very hit and miss.
Watch the mimicry and laughing videos and informative vedio then talk yourself when you are alone. I thing its really effective way to improve your communication skills.
What.cd to me was a live feed of every piece of music released anywhere, tagged well enough that I could go through each week and pick out potentially interesting things I had never heard before.

Whether I actually use the downloads or not, it allowed me to discover new bands, new genres, and music from different cultures that I would never have been able to listen to before. Where is the commercial service that offers anything close to this?