skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bias that you can trust but verify. For instance, AV software, and web filtering apps rate websites you visit with a score and could block you from visiting sites with a low score to keep you "safe". If web filtering vendor A is a competitor of vendor B or doesn't like the world view of candidate X, they could easily block you from going there. So we have to trust but verify. This is why open source is helpful so we can see the algorithm or reasons why something is blocked.
Yes, it would; and I as understand it, it is.
> when in fact, more people wanted the other person

The whole point of the comment you replied to was that you don't know that - can't know that. People voted under the current system, we don't know what their voting behavior would have been if the voting system would have been based on popular votes! For example, those in states where the winner was always clear from the start might have gone voting instead of staying at home, or they might not have voted for a 3rd party. It's not like the popular vote is 70%/30%, the total difference is far less than a single percentage point.

And Trump does have a mandate. The system is at it is - it has been like that since the very beginning of this country. I may not agree personally, but he won, and I really don't see any positive point in attempts that try to reinterpret the result. Remember, some day the roles may be switched.
If you're based in California, we wrote detailed steps when we incorporated earlier this year: https://dixonandmoe.com/writing/how-to-form-an-llc-in-califo...

The $800/year is indeed painful but it's cost of doing business (and maintaining continuity).
This was one of the big features of Blekko, the curated list of sites that was considered 'news' were in the news slashtag, and searching for news only gave you results from those sites.

That is absolutely an editorial bias on the part of a search engine and Blekko was pretty up front about it. Similarly health queries would land on actual medical doctor written web sites rather than "fake" medical information sites.

But this is the thing, we would get complaints that we were "suppressing the truth" because conspiracy theorists and alternate medicine devotees would argue we did not provide results in line with their notion of the truth.

You can't really argue against that point of view, while you can disagree with it, a person's "ground truth" is often unique to them and their social circle. Thus if you want to serve your customer you need to support their desire to see the world through their own lens. But if you don't know who your customer is you can't really predict what their lens should be (that old "don't collect data on me!" principle which Blekko also followed). It makes for an interesting place to be.

That said, since Bing manages to weed out the fake news sites apparently so in that regard they have a higher search quality score than Google on this query. And websites that use their index benefit from that as well.
The Power of the Shrug
The government I think could possibly use the commerce clause to impose obligation on a corporation certify its ranking algorithms which could lead to some extremely fun results.

A law that prevents google algorithm to (not)take truthiness into account would probably be constitutional.
Brazilian politicians are currently suggesting to create a new federal agency to regulate mobile apps because they "are unfair competition" to the services provided by the government-enforced oligopoly of four mobile carriers that basically share the market equally (http://img.estadao.com.br/link/files/2012/01/operadoras-tele...), and because Whatsapp doesn't (can't) hand out encrypted conversation histories to the police (http://adrenaline.uol.com.br/2016/11/09/46694/mp-defende-cri...).
"Sam Biddle wrote an article [on] the clickbait phenomenon"

Well, leave it to the experts.
I would also add c) Many people feel that the popular vote is what should be important. For example, polls in the media almost always report the popular vote tallies and nothing deeper, with the assumption that the Electoral College result will follow. Historically, this has been true the vast majority of the time. The Electoral College has only gone against the popular vote five times, and before Bush 43, the last time it happened was all the way back in 1888.

The more the Electoral College diverges from the popular vote, the better case you can make for changing the system. And on the other side, if somehow the counts were wrong and the popular vote did favor Trump, that would greatly undermine the argument for reform.
That's not correct. The Council of Ministers, acting unanimously, decide on the rules governing the use of languages by the European institutions. Ireland (and Malta) would veto removing English as an official language.

https://ec.europa.eu/ireland/news/statement-on-behalf-of-the...
author: On April 1st, 2014 Mr. Rifkin's published his latest book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. In 2011, Jeremy Rifkin published the New York Times bestseller The Third Industrial Revolution
This reminds me a lot of Ryan Holiday's book, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.

Except that is it something that happens via automation rather than through methods listed in the book. Still the book is a good read if just to get acquainted with how one can manipulate media in this day and age.
Lets say you only cut steel. Then the steel particles could be filtered out with magnets.
I suppose its much more common to want to work with steel than glass or ceramics.
I've been wondering about that for some months now: for all the stuff I see reported as news, I'm increasingly suspicious about how any of it comes into being as reported.
But it isn't and this election proved exactly the opposite of what you claim.
how would that work any differently than share flag/report? People share when it confirms their bias, and flag/report when they dislike something.

Let's say identical articles get published in Huffington Post and Breitbart (since most journalism is reposting AP/Reuters/Youtube/Imgur/Twitter with a h/t at the end anyway, its not unbelievable.)

The HP article gets shared by the left-bubble and spreads rapidly. Now if The left-internet catches wind of a controversial Breitbart article, they attack. In left-internet the Breitbart article will perish, the HP, flourish.

Because there are 55 hundred million versions of the same article posted across thousands of sources, there are always variants of each story that exhibit each behavior in each community.
"inside" = temporary files - not RAM. See comparison on https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#B...
I think you explained it perfectly. A gimmick is a feature to get attention. It's not an indispensable future. It's not a necessarily very useful feature. It's just there to get attention.
> If your more housing comes with an effective requirement for everyone who works in the city to live in that housing

What? Where did I require that?
Sure, worker's comp is around $400 a year, the tech liability is <$2k. Honestly, the hardest part was the analysis paralysis of "Gee what do I do, I'm sure it's weird and complicated". Just called a local place, they are the agent and got me a policy, similar to healthcare prior to the exchanges or having a State Farm rep.
I think we are talking about different levels of critical thinking. There is simple reading comprehension as in "I understand the argument you are making" but then there is also a higher version as in "I understand the argument you are making and have weighted it with this criteria"
Implicit grants are more dangerous for two reasons: (1) the process wherein the token is sent to the client can have serious security implications (especially for web apps) and (2) if your app communicates with any app-specific back end, the transfer of auth tokens between the app and back end is an additional temptation that is prone to have even more security issues.

I do agree - if you have an app that is 100% client-side, and you're either using an official SDK or know what you're doing, implicit grants can be done securely (just as secure as any other bearer or session token, as you mention). The problem is that many app developers choose the implicit flow initially (because it's easier to implement), but then end up using it in ways that would be much better suited to the authorization grant flow.
The article that I linked to may be one that not everybody agrees with, but it is a well-written and thoughtful article that isn't anywhere near the clickbait-farm model.

If the problem were merely that people selectively shared thoughtful but biased articles within their own information bubble, the problem would not be so severe.

The clickbait problem, in contrast, is that people share – within milliseconds - articles that are designed merely to siphon money from that dopamine hit, with no good-faith effort to even make any sense whatsoever.
How could germany be so free?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_...
Suppose someone said I am going to roll a fair six sided dice. So, 1,2,3,4,5,6.

I will give you a 50/50 bet. You can write down a number 1,2,3,4,5, or 6 and then chose if it will be that number or will be another number. AKA pick 2 and say it will be 2 or will not be 2.

Baring any evidence the first choice is random, but the second is that number or is not that number should not be random.

Logically faith is the same thing. It's picking a very specific result and saying baring any evidence I will pick a small set of outcomes and say this more likely true instead of not true.

Now, having evidence changes things. If you can show the dice is biased for 4, then picking not 6 is a better choice than not 4.

PS: Now if you believe picking is that number is a better option in my game, then I would be happy to play this game with you.
I can sympathize. I am not hiring, nor am I looking for a job, but I get several resumes and interview offers a day, because some dingus in Andhra Pradesh used my email address to apply for jobs all over the world, and a separate dingus used my email address to make postings on a "tech jobs in india" board.

I used to have an auto-reply to tell them that they're hitting the wrong address, but I suspect most people don't even read my reply, and I know a percentage of those who do are ready to start an argument with me about why I'm wrong. Nature of the internet, I guess.
> I use 13-inch laptops almost exclusively these days

Stopped reading the review at this point.
At what level are these people freely consenting? They want to change the kernel and there's only one main linux kernel. So they deal with the bullying gatekeeping and abuse. The idea that they all love Linus's antics is ridiculous.
Please never hijack back button.
Politics should be about prioritization. But unfortunately, it's often about facts.

For example, the climate change debate should be about how much effort to put into fighting it, whether regulatory or market-based solutions are more appropriate, etc. Instead, the debate is about whether it's even happening at all.

If we can't even agree on basic facts, what hope is there of choosing effective leadership?
When every website uses black-design to "helpfully" sign you up for their newsletter without you noticing, it gets harder and harder to differentiate actual newsletters that I signed up for, vs plain old spam. When in doubt, mark-as-spam it is.
Fun fact: GNU Parallel was originally a wrapper script that used `make` for the parallelization: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html
Is this phenomenon new? No, but suddenly everybody noticed[1]. Is there any actual data backing the claim that XYZ voters were tricked by a clikbait into which candidate to vote?!

Should Google, Facebook and Twitter turn into clickbait-vetting institutions? No, we should educate citizens instead to make better decisions and I don't mean voting for Hillary makes you an educated voter just because someone said so.

[1] This discussion is borderline ridiculous. Would we have this discussion if Ms Clinton had won the election? I doubt it. The DNC should do some introspection, stop asking how did we lose this election and start asking why did we lose this election, accept in democracies upsets happen and stop this insane witch hunt and get their shit together because we entire world is going to need them.
Some Early 20th Century Earthquakes in Los Angeles Area Might Have Been Man-Made
How about using the definition of 'envy' that is the one English-speaking people used? 'Envy' does not mean 'desire to maintain power'.

Significantly redefining a word is one of the worst aspects of libertarianism (eg, the redefinition of "violence"), and it's done intentionally in order to confuse the issue and put other people offside.
It's a factual statement that more people voted for Clinton period. Whether that would have been different without the electoral college is conjecture.
Ask HN: Consulting options for technologists?
As an engineer-turned-manager, with a decent amount of experience on both sides, once in a while I like to daydream about the "next thing" on my career path. I'm not especially excited about doing management at yet another company, on the other hand going back to 100% hands-on programming is not it either. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty, but it's been years since I've had that role and I'd like to utilize my management experience somehow.

What are some of the "off the beaten path" opportunities out there for folks like me? I'm guessing there's more action in consulting, but am open to pretty much anything. Technical due diligence consulting strikes me as potentially interesting. Anything else along similar lines?
I feel like I'm in the minority these days, but I personally think the Electoral College is a clever system that should remain. As large, coastal cities like NYC & LA continue to grow, they risk becoming entirely self-serving at the expense of the rest of the US. Voters in fly-over states often deal with agricultural and manufacturing issues that aren't even on the radar for voters in urban centers, so it's important to ensure the voice of middle-America isn't totally drowned out.
Still waiting for them to tweet FileNotFound...

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
Use history.replaceState instead of pushState on the initial page load. Also, your first history state change is missing a / causing a second state change:

http://webhook.site/
http://webhook.site/#048eaf45...
http://webhook.site/#/048eaf45...
Not that this changes your argument in general, but the current difference is half (edit: not one, oops!) of a percentage point, and will likely be larger by the time all the counting is done.
Every corporation try to hide now they hate against Trump. Sad that there is so many liars in corporate world. I Don't trust anything that Google, Facebook & Twitter is pushing. Trust issue is really understatement.
Customer development for early stage entrepreneurs
It's somewhat strange to see pfSense and the likes not being affected, yet expensive Cisco hardware gets killed by it...
I would have expected that to be the "testing" branch, not a different packages. but I guesd it makes sense if you gave up updating the code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

EDIT: I had assumed this is what we were talking about, excuse my own biases, lol :D
Gwen Ifill has died
The UX should say: "This file is a NSF file, do you want to open it?"
> The Supported Source License is comparable to a license you'd typically find with proprietary software. What makes a project Supported Source, instead of closed proprietary software, is that the code is online, open to pull requests, and there's a free trial.

Can anyone explain how pull requests would work in this situation?

Does part of the pull request sign the contribution over to the original license holder? How iron-clad is that? I can just imagine how much legal headache that could cause if a contributor decided that they owned part of the software.

I'm also curious about accepting pull requests in this way. Implicitly, the project owner takes over responsibility. In this respect, regular open source projects benefit from a lack of "official" support to begin with: if the PR does something that causes a complete breakage at some point, it's considered par for the course and fixed in due time. If however, something breaks with commercial software, there is a pretty high burden on the vendor to fix it.

I have worked in commercial software for years. It's a constant struggle as it is to say No to feature requests (for various reasons: not worthwhile, very hard to support, going in opposite direction of roadmap, etc). The worst are from the technical customers who say things like "why don't you just.." but don't understand the other ways the software is used (maybe by their competitors) with which their change is incompatible.

I imagine it would be an order of magnitude harder to say No to a full fledged pull request, and there would be immense pressure to accept it, since after all, the work is already done.. except that also means taking on the burden of maintaining and supporting it.

Anyone have experience accepting contributions from customers for commercial software?
Neat idea. I've used a 1-liner (just print) AWS lambda function in the past to test webhooks.
Looking back at your comment I take your point that it's surprising that a low speaker-population language might have a decent corpus to work from... unless that corpus is the entire legislature and discussion archive of a pan-European institution.

The thing with the machines, as far as I see it to date, is that they rely on good, professional human input, which is limited. So until everything that needs to be said is said, and translated professionally, current models are stuck just behind in the creativity stakes.

But when it comes to boiler-plate and repetitious texts, computers can absolutely automate that. Particularly if overseen by competent homo sapiens. It's just a crying shame that the dream of the babelfish dissuades people from translating their literature and business offers today, as we all wait on and on for that point in time. A wait that could be a very long time, while human translators sit waiting for the middle-man agency to send another highly marked up project. (You may have guessed; I'm working on a related thing.)

Now, neural networks and massively parallel machine learning, that's a different story... If the machine manages to infer meaning and work within the confines of acceptable grammar use, it's game, set and match to the singularity.
Those diagrams aren't very intuitive to me. Do the different shaded regions represent turnout? What is the coordinate of the candidate, position on a 2-axis political scale?
You are right about the long-standing dispute and arguments from both sides. I was referring to 1974 since that was the last time two countries agreed on document where borders were mentioned although in a very general way. That constitution was also foundation for succession rights and deeds of federal republics after declaring independence.

I mentioned 90s since that was the fist time international commission was involved in trying to help in determining the borders. But it was all in vain since one side states that border is determined by data based on cadastre and one is claiming that the river is the border. The riverbed changed during the years and that created fertile ground for political manipulations.
Is that not better than adopting a more classic proprietary model where the source code isn't available?

I totally agree with the philosophical argument around OSS --but at the end of the day, people need to eat. If you're going to argue that we should all OSS our code, you need to specify a way to make it sustainable (see http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/ro... for more on the unsustainability).
Does Xcode come with touch bar support? Custom debugging controls could be cool.
I am not ThomPete but if I had to guess, it's PC bias that blinded many to the potential of this outcome. Perhaps most glaring of these biases is the idea that all women should demonstrate solidarity for their gender and vote for a woman, even if it means voting against their own best interests and the interests of their communities. I don't see too many people calling that for what it really is: sexism.
<But it isn't

Re-read the comment you responded to. I agreed with you. What is it that you think I am claiming? My only claim (admittedly that I am aware of) is that fake news would have a harder time having impact in a climate where people practiced more critical thinking than they do currently.
Wouldn't that be better served by reducing federal government's in favor of more local systems (like states, or even cities)?
Odd that they don't want to let anyone know the operating pressure. They seemed to spend an inordinate amount of song-and-dance dodging the "whats the pressure" question.
You might not need Scripty
Who is "Supported Source" ? Domain is behind privacy wall, no mention of a formal company/foundation name, etc.

Looks just like an intermediary to sell licenses.
It is a crazy time that we live in. We have a massive group of people that openly reject mainstream news and were lead there by the now President elect. Trump spent his entire campaign crafting an alternative reality and now millions of people are all in. If he continues down this road of trashing mainstream media institutions while pointing people to his cronny owned newsertainment entities like Breitbart I am very concerned about the future.

The Trump bubble has to burst eventually and I think the American's that voted for him are in for a rude awakening when it does. I just hope the fallout doesn't bring down too much of the country.
> I feel that a large portion of humans would need to develop the ability to respectfully disagree with personal opinion differences, without resorting to conflict.

If we could do this, we wouldn't need libertarianism, or any other kind of -ism.
I imagine it would work like a CLA in a lot of company sponsored open source. You retain copyright, but allow the owner to distribute it under their specified license terms. Or you could have a CLA that actually assigns copyright.

The ongoing maintenance of the contribution is definitely an interesting question. That is the same with classic OSS projects too, though. I know a number of projects that are going towards making a pluggable core with plugins maintained externally to reduce this burden.
(Right now when I'm writing this) ~660 thousand votes, or 0.5% difference, according to WP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/us-pres...
The product ssl certificate alerts my browser.
The year is 2016, if you want to serve,serve! Don't bluf.
Dynatrace in a Microservices World with Ansible, Bamboo and Docker
...and you would never want to have a precious metal be a currency.
I think your "role playing at the beginning" is interesting, but "belief" is in a whole different category.

As far as I can see all useful monetary systems are essentially backed by consensus and belief.
Interesting explanation of how one type of alien craft work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_aAVU5Fv5c
Brazilians being Brazilians it is quite likely that this will create an incentive for people to start using illegal apps.

E.g.: in Brazil abortion is illegal but quite common, tax evasion is illegal but quite common, smuggling from Paraguay is illegal but quite common, gambling is illegal but quite common, ...
Getting rid of the electoral college for the Presidential election would not affect representation in the House and Senate.
IT’s Little Secret: Too Little End-User Experience (EUE) Data Use
This is a great reply, but as I was reading it I was thinking how odd it is that is much more lucrative and simple to learn JavaScript for 12 months or so compared to have a math degree and solid crypto programming skills.