skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at this:

http://i.imgur.com/fItaEy9.png

If you were a regular user at /r/politics, you would have noticed that there were tons of new users with no history coming in and throwing ad hominem attacks at everyone who said anything about clinton. You would also notice that bots were doing keyword searches on certain negtive titles and automatically downvoting them the instant they were posted. The day after the election was over, this all ended.

The Correct the Record PAC had 6 million dollars in funding specifically for spreading opinion on social media sites, of which Reddit is one of the most influential, being a source of long-form discussion. In fact, I believe CTR even directly mentioned that they target Reddit. Why wouldn't they, considering it was their stated mission?

What on earth do you think politicians do with their media budgets? Only buy newspaper and TV ads? Do you think they just ignore the internet, which is the number one form of media now? That's just plain absurd.
You can probably try programming in DLang. It isn't as popular as Rust or Go, but surely it is a nice alternative to C++.

A recent update on the compile time function execution is here http://dlang.org/blog/2016/11/18/project-highlight-the-new-c...
Facebook sets $6B share buyback; accounting chief to leave
This is what the future of smartphones looks like
"WSL is grafted on to Windows, and has low priority" - not sure the team of ~12+ of us would agree with you on that.

And how would the shell team put up a banner in Sublime?

If the kernel prevented these files from being written to, how would we install the distro in the first place?

Could, should, might, may. Yep, there are 100 ways in which some things could, and may yet, be done, but these choices were made for hundreds of sound reasons.

We're still working hard on WSL - lots of improvements in the pipe.
Watch the traffic coming out of it.
Seconded. Some of it feels a bit dated, and it doesn't cover tools you can use like PowerMock if your codebase is Java and you really just need to get a piece of hairy code under coverage as quick as you can without having to refactor it all to be testable the 'normal' or 'clean' way. Nor does it cover refactoring for a functional and immutable approach (its approach is much more OO). Still a great resource to have on hand and be inspired by.

The most important thing is to follow its advice and just start doing it little by little, even small refactors of other people's code. A friend's company had a Book Club and some testing book got on the list at one point, and as they were discussing it they kept having arguments over how effective various things were, so they resolved the arguments by starting a Testing Club where every week everyone would put in at least an hour into getting some part of the system under test, or trying out a testing technique, and discussing it. Over time they got most of the product under test and fixed a lot of previously unknown bugs.
While many web users don’t know that utm in a URL stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor, there are also Red Hat users who don’t realise that yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified
From what I have read in the internet the much larger difference is that in Germany there are lots of other ways than going to college/university: As the example with apprenticeship or going to a Fachhochschule (a little bit similar to university, but much more school-like in sense of strict organization and mostly focused on "applied subject"; "Fachhochschule" is often translated with "school of applied science", but I prefer the traditional translation "engineering school", though Fachhochschulen don't offer just degrees in engineering). Fachhochschulen were originally conceived by industry because they complained that at that time they considered the education that universities offered as too theoretical.

Also apprenticeships of course finish with a certificate (which is often well-regarded for apprenticeships that are more intellectually challenging) and Fachhochschulen also finish with a degree (though the Fachhochschul degree is considered as "a level below" than a university degree).

TLDR: Just because university is affordable in Germany does not imply that most people want to go there. There are lots of other options such as apprenticeships or Fachhochschulen (and some more exotic options that I won't go into) which can be a much better choice. If people in the US complain about the high cost of university/college education: Why don't they simply conceive such alternatives, too?
No, the C compiler executable compiles your program at run time, i.e. when the compiler is running. This C compiler compiles your program while the compiler is being compiled (well, you never end up with a compiler executable, just your compiled program).
I'm getting frustrated by the Bayesian train at the moment, as its drawbacks get glossed over. "Oh yeah, there's priors, but they're not important for X, Y and Z reasons."

In large samples, the frequentist and Bayesian methods are the same, so then why does it matter? In small samples, the prior becomes significant, so why use it if it shapes the estimates depending on what you use? You could turn these arguments for Bayesianism on their head.

I'm actually neither Bayesian nor frequentist, or both, depending on how you look at it, but I think Bayesianism is being overhyped. Sure, the prior is part of the model, but if you can estimate something without adding extra baggage, why not?

Imagine doing a meta-analysis, and now having all the extra heterogeneity due to priors. Why add that?

My guess is a lot of the appeal of Bayesianism has to do with the success of the machinery surrounding it, like MCMC, which is sort of automatic and has certain other appeals. As people realize you can do stochastic optimization with raw ML inference, some of the appeal will probably dissipate a bit (although not entirely).
What a super buggy and laggy interface. The submit button doesn't even work on the react activities! Nothx
Most mainstream media post interpretations, not facts. E.g. that Trump is "racist" (based on some comments about some, not even all, Mexican, who aren't even a race!).
Fake news is saying that George Soros has voting machines that are rigging the election. It's just not true no matter how much people want to hear it.

Real news is saying that Trump wants to address immigration by building a wall. People may disagree about what that means, but it's still a true story.
Yes, among other things. As long as a program can't tell the difference (as per the as-if rule), the compiler is free to delay tjee evaluation till runtime.
If this were the case, it means the bias is programmed into the machine learning algorithms.

What consitutes false news to you? I've seen it on huffpo, salon, cnn, and msnbc.

Any article claiming Trump is a racist/rapist is false, for instance...because there is really no substantial proof.

Most people screaming about fake articles just want to censor opposing opinions.
Yes, you definitely want to somehow communicate that that you were working for a startup at the end of its funding. I read your resume before reading your request here, and the ladt two short stays really stood out to me. I'm not sure the best way to do this. Off the top of my head, even putting "(Startup)" by the company name would help. I look forward to seeing what others recommend.

On the nitpick side, I don't have enough context to know what this means in real terms: "Daily orders per day increased by over 100 for previously inactive users."
You and the people writing these articles need to take a less US-centric view of this situation. This has been going on for a long time in non-English speaking communities.

My hope is that now that it has become very noticeable in the US maybe they'll do something about it, but it's entirely possible they do nothing for the reasons you said.
See my other comment in this thread describing it a bit. Also, see this:

http://i.imgur.com/fItaEy9.png
I work for an ISP. I fired up a capture one day out of curiosity and instantly saw thousands of packets per second destined for 23/TCP across our address space. There's a LOT of these compromised devices out there that are just constantly scanning the entire IPv4 address space.
according to your logic then the MSM is all biased for trump and breitbart is biased for hillary. sounds legit.
A bit ridiculous that I'm being downvoted for misspelling "its" as "it's". I've now corrected it in the above post.
umm no!...I don't know too much about this sub-field..but there are machine methods designed explicitly for adversarial data. it even has a wikipedia page! I don't know if facebook's methods implement any of this yet..but your statements about machine learning not modelling this just ain't so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/
If/when this issue is resolved, the guidance will be updated. Until then, don't go futzing with files in hidden system folders.
Well, there's one data point.
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I mostly agree with you but I don't think swimming will necessarily help with hand and wrist problems.
I'd start with: news posted on sites that are fake. What's a fake site, you say? Well, how about one that claims to be a site that it is obviously not.

IOW, this is very similar to a problem we expect companies to be able to solve: identifying phishing sites.

If a site claims to be ABC News, a known media entity, and it clearly is not, I'd argue anything posted on it should be considered fake.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12986568.
almost good though!
I used one of those (Workrave specifically) when my symptoms were at their absolute worst but it just makes it impossible to get things done.
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Ivermectin, and a lot of other drugs in the class of macrocyclic lactones, are considered "endectocides" in that they kill nematodes (endoparasites) and insects (ectoparasites). I don't understand why they aren't studying moxidectin, a related compound which persists in the body at effective concentrations for a month or more.
You're focusing on the content.

Look at the source. 70news.wordpress.com should not be at the top of anybody's list of reliable news sources.

Look at the topic (e.g. from simple keywords). Look at the references (urls) mentioned in the article. Look at the timeliness.

There is plenty of information available to machine learning algorithms, without even needing to touch the natural language aspect.
Not necessarily. The safety pins on a squat rack (or power rack, not sure what the difference is) are handy if you're scared of dropping the weight on an OHP, or if you don't have anyone to spot you on the benchpress. If you move the rack's pins to the outside uprights, lower down near the floor, and put the bar there it makes it much easier to load/unload plates for the deadlift. For me, taking weights off of a bar on the floor is the absolute worst when you're exhausted after a heavy set.

But yes if you're using a squat rack for anything other than squatting, and the gym is busy, give others a turn. Or at least let them work in with you.
The important part is that you are able to temporally decouple running the tests against the service mock, and the tests running against the real service.
This sounds very similar to Consumer Driven Contracts, such as https://docs.pact.io/

You record your expectations towards the service mock, and then later verify that these expectations hold against the real service. This decoupling allows you to run your "end-to-end" test suite very often, say on every check in, and then only verify the contract say every hour or day, depending on how stable your test environments are. The theory is that this gives quicker feedback, reduce flakyness and avoid combinatorial explosion of number of tests needed to run.
Great resources!

It's important to understand that these approaches are on the leading edge of research, and represent unsolved problems!
we'll they have some top talent money can buy there. Including member of RU academy of science. They can't suck just like that. These people made history and are most probably being watched by any group with any interest in machine learning.
We are aware of the difference between weather and climate. Most of us are also aware that these significantly elevated temperatures have persisted for a while now rather than being outlying data points, and are heartily sick of attempts to derail the debate with facile arguments like the one advanced here.

Of course, that might not be your motivation in posting it, but since you saw fit to speculate about the motivation behind the headline I feel equally free to speculate about the motivations behind your 'skepticism.'
Definitely.

One note - you can't just do pushups and call it a day. You need to work your back muscles to keep balance between those muscle groups. Pushups alone will cause your shoulders to roll forward, exacerbate forward head posture, and lead to upper crossed syndrome, which is already a major cause of many computer related RSI issues. Personal experience speaking here.
Incorrectly forecasting an election result (where polls ended up having substantial errors) is hardly "fake" news.
You're very welcome.

I am sure the fly landing on Hillary can be blamed for Trump winning.

Seriously, that was likely a factor, especially when coupled with the Obama fly incident. The whole "Spirit Cooking" occult stuff that came from Podesta's emails, combined with the art he proudly displays in his office and home giving that instant credibility, got a number of people who are more inclined to thinking about the supernatural than the typical HN commentator to wonder about things like demonic possession, which is, after all, straight out of the New Testament.

(As for me, I'm definitely willing to entertain thoughts of the supernatural when it comes to evil.)
Could you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious.
In srilanka, an innovative way to fight malaria, was print newspapers with mosquito repellant mixed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-newspaper-t...

worth a read!
So bigotry is accepted...as long as it's against someone that goes against the current narrative.
lol can't even hang from a bar for over 3 seconds. I'm a coding machine regardless though.
I haven't worked on a news app, but why doesn't something like PageRank plus keeping track of a site's longevity handle this. It seems like fake sites would come and go quickly -- I doubt "70news.wordpress.com" has been around long, or gets many (non-gamed) links.

I'm surprised Google messed it up so badly. Was 70news manipulated to the top of the results page, or did their ranking algorithm totally screw up a simple query? Neither makes much sense.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59020/why-are-the-gr...
While I'm not a Dvorak typist, it seems to me like the benefit from getting your keyboard at a proper height and maybe doing some hand and wrist strengthening is going to be bigger than switching keyboard layouts.
Barbell: Rogue 2.0 bar (cheap at $250, perfectly fine for newbie)

Power cage [0]

Realistically, the most expensive part of the setup was...the weights. Shipping that shit costs a lot, and they're not cheap to begin with. I bought some bumper plates for deadlifting, and a bunch more as regular plates. Total weight is like 400 - 500 lbs, I forget exactly. All in all, it cost me like....$1400 or so. Worth it if you know you're gonna stick with it, but you should probably start in a gym and make sure it's gonna stick.

Oh, and if you want advice on getting started, let me know.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UMM4QC/ref=oh_aui_deta...
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Considering the fact the Northwest and the Northeast Passages have been navigable to shipping in the summer months since 2008, a feat impossible in the 20th century, there appears to be something more significant than short-term weather changes happening in the artic.
I'm often curious why particular comments are down voted, so this caught my eye. Why did you come to the conclusion that it was due to a typo? That said, I don't have an alternative theory.
The fundamental problem is the mixing of opinion and facts into the same story combined with a complete lack of interest and care by writers in finding out what happened.

I want and will pay for a news service which only reports facts (no opinions) and which is concerned with accuracy. There are specialty services that provide this in certain niche areas, but no general service.
It's not just a suspicion, it's right in the title of articles like "Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash"

http://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-und...
Never followed or watched Breitbart, but CNN and friends presented it as a poll, presumably done with rigor and impartiality. Either they couldn't afford to pay their statisticans or they deliberately fudged them and lied.
I think there is also a incentive problem. Internally, from what I know, the performance of a team is always driven much how much metric it can drive, how much incremental revenue it can generate, how much more engagement this feature will drive, etc. The number of contents taken down doesn't seem like a sexy metric, so I assume no team wants to take this unsexy task.
This is 100% the way to go. (from experience)
Pick a task off the backlog, pair program, rinse and repeat.

I recently streamed a session like this @ my company (Trip.com) with one of the junior developers

Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsuclajEBc
Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-z7M4h3EzQ

This was his task and we just built it together while I am teaching/asking questions/explaining.

Important things to focus on

1. Thought process - cannot stress this enough, it is the most important thing to explain. Why are you doing X and just talk out what you think in your head
2. Explain everything
3. Leave a lot of time for questions and make sure you aren't impatient when a question is "basic". Make sure the engineer knows he/she can ask anything, nothing is too stupid or too basic.

Worst thing to do IMHO is just do "something cool". Just do the work inside the context of the environment you/him/she knows.

My 2 cents
You don't need a robust definition to implement something practical that deals with the clear cases.
Most of the other ML applications listed (driving, voice recognition, content recommendation) are somewhat easy tasks for humans, if not at scale... Reading, understanding and fact checking a news article is comparatively pretty difficult.
Too bad that this clickbait is upvoted. Both the premises reasoning in the article are not sound; filtering fake news is not at all similar to spam filtering, anf even if it were, it still wouldn't be easy as a result.

Then there is the false dilemma, and there are probably more fallacies in there, but I won't bother to read this utter bullshit anymore.
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There are new compounds being used in the veterinary world that may be better options. Fluralaner, for example, appears to have few side effects and remains in effective concentrations to kill fleas and ticks for over 3 months in dogs. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of these drugs being used to cure children of headlice in the near future.
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We've banned this account for repeatedly posting like this after we've asked you to stop.
For #1, I get random emails now and then from various equity firms including VC. If your startup is listed on AngelList, Crunchbase, or other startup lists then you will likely get them. Or you are in the news for some reason like winning a competition. BTW I am not in SV and not well connected.
Code is on github :) https://github.com/seiferteric/qrtun
Well, to be fair, we've all seen recently how titles are often not an accurate representation of the content of the post :)
I wasn't certain, but it was the only grammatical error I could see in the comment.
How about placing in our blood flow a CRISPR that embeds into mosquitoes' DNA something that makes all their offspring sterile after four generations? For three generations they should be fertile thus moving genes around.
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No one touches PII
And what about the -36F drops in siberia!
A public company is obligated to report quarterly, in a prescribed format, a bunch of high-level information material to the business by Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X.

A public company is not obligated to rush out details like "We’ve determined that the average time spent per article had been over-reported by 7-8% on average since August of last year. This was caused by a calculation error: we were calculating the average across a histogram of time spent, instead of reflecting the total time spent reading an article divided by its total views."
If you've read the article and follow the writings of Arctic climatologists like Jason Box, you'd know that this a pant-shittingly scary situation.

Arctic ice albedo strongly affects the Earth's ability to reflect heat. This is a significant positive feedback loop and signals a new normal in the Jet Stream fluctuations.
This problem has been going on for years and only now is it receiving wide recognition due to the recent election. I wrote about fake Google News in mid-2014:

"Google News Growth Hack Exposed"
http://jmarbach.com/google-news-growth-hack-exposed
Small correction: "I move files manually into the lxss folder" USING WINDOWS! ;) Copying or moving files via Bash using cp / mv works as expected.
> Breitbart and classifies it (arguably correctly) as fake news

Yeah, fine line between fake news and something that is just extremely slanted.

where that ridiculous stuff about the podesta "spirit dinner" fall?

Where does something like this

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/10/22/wikileaks-podest...

fall? It's based on an email, but the content is, IMO, pretty low quality. It talks about unrelated things, and ignores context to portray a skewed version of facts.

Despite that, you could argue that yes it is a fact based news source and should be allowed.
>The safest thing to do for home routers is to kill UPNP

No no no!!!! This is going about it completely the wrong way and is setting us up for failure come IPv6 (if it's not already a thing for you).

We need half-decent security practices not a temporary workaround that requires user intervention.

In this case a randomly generated password printed somewhere inside the device's box or on the device itself is enough to stop Mirai and similar dumb botnets.
I think this is more a reflection of using a digital medium to speak. Everything is inherently kept around anyway
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the carousel on top has four pips but three items. my ocd is at critical levels right now. (possibly something got filtered since i'm at work)
Great question about the utility of a Master's or MBA for someone going down the VP Engineering / CTO track. I really like Julia's suggestion of seeking out a program with a niche for what you want to do rather than just getting one as a prereq. It's really nice to see how HBS's offerings have evolved based on real needs from startup founders in recent years.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985097.
I chased a girl to France, the worst decision I ever made.

Some time after, I chased a girl to Japan, the best decision I ever made.
Well, crap, you had the same thing when RedHat 7 was new. new RedHat 6 installs that went online were getting pwned in just a few minutes. The exploit scripts were open source even then.