skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm already working on my startup which started way before this election. News bias didnt happen and it is not a new problem. It's been there for centuries. Unfortunately, it's my startup idea and I don't want to open source it. The work is in its super early stages but if some one is interested in teaming up on this and working together, shoot me an email at anas.firdousi@gmail.com. I live in Silicon Valley so if your local it will be great but location doesn't really matter if you passionate about the idea!
No, the same civil rights allow you to start a process to invalidate a tax completely and they are used that way all the time. Civil rights arguments have everything to do with why your laffer curve isnt optimal and we pay higher set rates so there are things that are completely exempt. Look at state sales tax exemptions as an example of people lowering their effective tax rate, but not the overall tax collected or the average benefit of government.

It seems to me like you are trying to warp the discussion into every tool with a visible political outcome being equivalent and open to "democratic" systems. The republic is a tool for a specific purpose that is usually opposite of delivering optimal solutions to the majority. The democratic systems are supposed to deliver what you seem to want until they violate civil rights. If they dont for a reason other than civil rights, then your recourse is to petitition the republic to change the election process. But you cant make the republic actually care about your general tax rates or any other problems it allows the democratic process to handle, it can only make sweeping rules when parties are in violation of the core rules.

The argument that the state is killing you is only significant if you can make it rationally, and a 10-99% tax isnt killing you unless it doesnt exclude the poverty level in its gradients and then you dont need to be the one being killed to make the argument. A 99% tax rate that can get 50% of the vote may indicate another failure though.
Hawking: Humans won't survive another 1000 years on Earth
When's the last time you saw a milk-man?
But again, it's racist scapegoating. The majority of Silicon Valley CEOs are white, and an even higher percentage are white outside of Silicon Valley.

So here we have white racist nationalists whining about the few successes of minority immigrants (Sundar, Satya, etc) while ignoring how women and minorities have had a hard time getting into the upper echelons in general.

Yes, middle America is facing a crisis in the New Economy as their jobs are automated away, but it doesn't fully explain the Trump/Bannon phenomena. Poor voters voted for Clinton, the average Trump voter salary was above $50k. You cannot fully explain away the Trump phenomena with the Michael Moore explanation.

And if people let themselves get racially baited, believe fake news, scapegoating minorities, we can't blame tech workers alone, except perhaps maybe we can blame Facebook for not filtering lying and racist propaganda stories.
It's only impossible in safe code. Unsafe cade can violate those rules all day long. You can't guarantee that there's no unsafe code running concurrently.
I'm an executive at a nonprofit and I delete all unsolicited email unopened. I just don't have time for it. I don't know how typical I am (small organization and it's part time for everyone involved)
I didn't mean "done better" as an absolutist statement, but I can understand why it would be read that way. I meant it more as a brand statement, obviously the React team, contributors and users are likely to believe it's better. I get that some will come down on the other side of that coin.

I stand by the statement that the competition between these two projects is good for the web which I think is the important part of my response to the parent comment. I'm glad there are people working with and on web components.
Innovation is not magic; it is the product of investment. The time to innovate was 20 years ago; now it's effectively too late. The climate has already changed and the rate of change is not slowing. We will "innovate", all right, by necessity, and ride it out as best we can; but we can't innovate our way back to the climate we had before.
Windows licenses cost. Also if you are running your other stuff completely on Linux, having to setup Windows boxes just for the SQL Server can be bit inconvenient. I see this as a companion to the multiplatform .NET. Now you can run a Microsoft shop without running Windows.
Or they have been treating macOS as a mature OS where there is little space for the revolution.
Except that part of "barely touching" is not really true.

> You can also tell that macOS is not a priority because
> security updates for same kernel issues always come weeks
> after they've been fixed on iOS.

Or you can tell that iOS has much larger user base and hence the priority for security fixes.
It's different because Facebook has captured nearly every American adult and they have a Google-like (in search) dominance over social. There's no news platform in US history that has ever come even remotely close to being able to claim that. They're just about worth more than every US media company combined, their reach and financial power are already incredible; four years from now they'll be as profitable as Google is today and their reach will likely have expanded further.

I can't see a scenario where Facebook manages to avoid anti-trust action against it in the next four to six years, both in Europe and the US.
I agree. I was just wondering if OP knew something I didn't
I can't remember where I saw this quote last year but it rang terrifyingly true to me:

"The people who used to tell me that Wikipedia is unreliable now get their news from viral facebook posts"
But "the tired old trope about implicit biases and agendas" the whole content of the Pro Publica piece here? Take away all the facts just there to support that angle, and what's left?
True - it does force one into a certain path though as you feed the beast. Just as someone taking lots of opioids is less likely to drive a car, someone playing a lot of games is likely to not spend much time in the real world.

I find it to be a happiness trap myself, it puts you in a gated world which doles out satisfaction, but you can never achieve long-lasting emotional and physical well being. When the person wakes up at 40, 50 and finds a life of little achievement from what they once dreamed, now it being too late to truly make big moves... similar to people who spend all their time functionally drinking or smoking weed. Yes, you can survive, but when your working days are over and you find you have no skills or abilities or hobbies or close relationships, what has your life been for?

I've had a parent that after a lifetime of working and providing and chilling out by having beers exit the workforce and suddenly having nothing to attach to. I fear the same for my friends.
I am not entirely convinced that Apple has a coherent plan for the future, at least one that is stable and not shifting every few months.

I mean, they clearly had some sort of iCar focus which they just shifted away from, which puts them back squarely on iOS devices. But smartphones aren't the growth market that they were a few years ago. Unless they can find some sort of new market to expand into, they're not going to be able to be the same sort of asymptotic-growth-fueled company they were since the iPod came out.

Either they need another iPod / iPhone / iPad (and I'm not entirely sure that the iPad deserves to be there, next to the prior two, but it kept things going for a while), or they have to really retrench to be a stable-market company, serving the upgrade-every-few-years premium smartphone buyer.
I think you underestimate it. There's a really common bias where people assume everyone else is an idiot/bad driver/etc except themselves.
Yeah, I just came to say this. Here's the code, with obvious color markers. http://i.imgur.com/91dFyRr.png
That's not a useful fact, because both candidates would have campaigned differently if the president was chosen by popular vote rather than the electoral college. It's very unlikely that the popular vote would have been the same.
If you think that's true you've got some serious problems.

Facebook doesn't have a militarized police force.
It definitely didn't start that way. For a very long time, Android didn't have most of the apps iPhone users wanted, especially not back in 2009 when I got my Android. It took time, but it happened. Especially in the case of Tizen, where it could run Android apps, they'd really just need to convince the top 200 apps or so to port over to their store, and that'd get them started pretty well.

The challenge is not getting the apps ported, the challenge is making devs want to port the apps. Sometimes that comes because everyone is talking about a new phone, but where Android started, was the developers of those apps themselves getting excited about it. But Android no longer caters to developers, so a platform like Tizen has a great opening there. As Windows Phone is closed source, it couldn't capitalize on this nearly as well.
jesus wept ;)
If chantix doesn't work for you my grandma used bupropion to quit. It was a wonder drug for her.

Obviously talk to your doctor.
Hmm...I'm curious what your hardware is like. Maybe I'm spoiled with my 2014 MacBook Pro?
To whom exactly is Ms. Holmes connected? There's an awful lot of cheering over her demise, but I haven't kept abreast of this story.
Of those that voted. I think fixxer is saying that there are alot of people that don't vote (about half of the voting population) because they are an X in a Y state so they don't think their vote will change that. But if the electoral college went poof, a lot more of the missing 50% would vote and that could change the expected value of a popular vote.
Looks a lot like Elixir's pattern matching to extract values from maps.

someMap = {1, 2}
{foo, bar} = someMap
foo # 1
bar # 2
I like the author's focus on results and team productivity. Standardized tools are key for that. This is also my main concern, when it comes to JavaScript frameworks and libraries. While Ember seems very good at that front, when talking about a single project or multiple very similar projects, I would like to add another point:

As soon as you are working with different platforms (the author mentioned WordPress), you should not necessarily integrate everything all the way up. Because now you have your Ember based build process and maybe something gulp-based for WordPress.

I always try to find frameworks, which has all the things only concerning itself integrated into (say server-side rendering etc.) but then stops there and makes use of preferably the two or three leading tools (e.g. grunt/gulp plugin) for all the other concerns.

That way you can choose a standard stack and only consider new frameworks if they work reasonably well with it.
>“the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.”

A great vision, and one that I share. But I think that it's also a vision that is completely incompatible with Apple.
Your definition of propaganda probably is a little to inclusive. In my experience, the Economist very rarely gets the facts wrong (including by omission of major elements). The "letters to the editor" at the beginning of every issue are also almost always critical of previous issues of the magazine, and they don't have a problem with publishing them.

What the Economist constantly does is give its opinion on the facts, and that opinion usually sums up to how good free-trade and libertarian policies are. I definitely wouldn't count that as propaganda. You could, but then any newspaper with opinion pieces would be propaganda, which is not what is normally meant by "propaganda".
>> I should think that you quoted it because you thought it was particularly relevant or representative, did you not?

And that's why I started it with "sorry for the offtopic". You do not always read what you want to but what you have to.

I just try to correct the bias I am concerned about. Lessons learned:

- bias is subjective

- there are people who like to stay in their own biased world

Am I relevant enough now?

Cheers!
A company I worked for hired some expert dude who came in and shaped the company into something that could be purchased. That was very interesting.

That process that takes raw talent and startup chaos and turns it into something that will get acquired.

It'd be great to hear about that process from both sides. There must be some sort of mentor approach, of giving advice that will work for that company.
Indonesia’s PicMix: Editing and sharing photos made easy
Bringing Expeditions to 1M students across the UK
> California, for example, has a huge population of Republicans and now their vote would matter.

And at the same time votes from Democrats in California would also matter more. I'd assume a number of people who'd vote Democrat in CA don't vote because they know the Democrats won't lose anyway.
An authorization protocol like OAuth. By means of e-mail, people can contact the service provider too. Similar tools include mobile phones, accounts on Facebook/Google/Twitter/etc. but many will also require us to provide an e-mail address for password recovery.
DJBs point is summarised by the last point from the slides:

"Bottom line: 128-bit AES keys are not comparable in security to 255-bit elliptic-curve keys. Is 2²⁵⁵−19 big enough? Yes. Is 128-bit AES safe? Unclear."
Combining INDEX and MATCH is more versatile than VLOOKUP as you can do things like have the result you return to the left of the value you're looking up. However, VLOOKUP / HLOOKUP are simpler to understand when starting out, and that's a good thing when you're trying to build confidence in using Excel.
Ontario pilot project puts universal basic income to the test
President of DNA startup 23andMe stepping down
No, small is good. But C isn't small. It's actually massive, and not terribly orthogonal. It's peppered with special cases, and things people think but aren't actually true (how would you check for an integer overflow in C?).

It's like comparing x86 to, say, m68k (or most things, really). One was designed. The other is an ungainly mess of hacks on top of hacks, which has a good, elegant design in there somewhere, desparately trying to get out. Guess which one is x86.

Now guess which one is C.

Worse really is better. Or at least, good enough.

C isn't a complete mess, and you can write good code in it if you're very careful, but it's not great.
Its a play on the 'The Spy Who ___ Me' title meme. I thought it was very fun and did a good job communicating how mundane the lives of the spies really were, which appeared to be a thesis or at least supporting point of the article.

Tl;dr: Russian spy brought bug into secure facility, revealed other spies. FBI deals with it.
Interesting idea. They tried that with smoking and it only had moderate success. I wonder if it would be any better with gambling.

"Your most likely outcome at this table is to lose 20 cents for every 10 dollars you play". Or "If you play $100 at this table you will most likely leave with $98". The problem is you'd need to find a way that actually sounds bad.
Source code:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...
Not sure why LinkedIn is even mentioned... a quick search on the whole page (ignoring the title/post categories) is just this one sentence...

> By day, Buryakov lived the ordinary life of a Wall Street analyst: reading and writing reports; attending meetings, conferences, and parties; building connections on LinkedIn.

But its an interesting read, even with the weird title...
I ask myself would I have had the balls to do this, to stand up to the lawsuit, which I clearly couldn't afford? In my 20s maybe. Now probably not. It seems wrong that you can threaten whistle-blowers with stealing trade secrets. There really needs to be a solution to this problem. Obviously a company has a right to trade secrets but an employee thinking they faked results is hardly a trade secret. Maybe we need a special court to examine such things. Do the whistle blower statutes have any solution for this like extra penalties for trying to intimidate whistle blowers with lawsuits?
Apple famously renames positions in order to 'softly' get rid of an employee. That's why I would personally think along similar lines.
Paywalled. Flagging.
The Linux Foundation may have just accepted a Trojan Horse (or rather, a Redmond Horse). I hope it turns out for good for all.
I'd love to see better contributions to Linux. If Microsoft can help make Wine better, then the playing field could be level. But it is scary to think that so many years of open source software available on Linux will eventually be available to Windows users without being ported to Windows, and then Linux suffers more. Hopefully it will be good for all.
Right, sure. I'm absolutely not surprised that people want to talk about the role of Facebook in society, or fake news, or the algorithms used. And much of that has been covered recently in other front-page articles. Some of them have been interesting to me, some haven't, I definitely won't complain if there are more of them.

However, this particular article doesn't provide any interesting commentary on Facebook algorithms, its role in society or fake news. It's borderline content-free and I find that puzzling. Snowden says we should be wary of getting our news from a single source. Did this add something to any of the subjects you mention?
Judge set to toss charges against Backpage.com CEO, cites shield law
Nah, just go full Trump and all will be well. She could even be president some day. I'm not joking.
Clearly that was behavior when democrats were dead sure they were going to win the election. Now is very different.
So happy to hear JSON API is working that well for you :)
Microsoft should buy CodeWeavers (the company behind Wine)

https://www.codeweavers.com/
It's trivial by comparison but I can't help but imagine all of the people who are pressured to do unethical or questionable things by their managers who can do little but quit. This probably happens across corporate America on a daily basis where the stakes are much smaller.
Listen, the important thing is that when Peter lit the Beacons of Gondor, the Men (+Elves/Dwarfs/Hobbits) of the West answered the call.
Twitter adds QR codes
It's long past time that USB security is taken seriously.

By default anything stuck into a USB port should be sandboxed and various integrity checks need to be performed before access is allowed.
> Or you can tell that iOS has much larger user base and hence the priority for security fixes.

Yeah because that single guy that needs to code all security patches has to finish iOS first before he goes to another building to work on macOS?

We are often discussing (me included) Apple moves like they have very little resources to do anything. Then I think again and d'oh.
Wow. I mean, jeez.

At this rate, one day I will be able to run Rainbow 6 Rogue Spear and Deus Ex on ReactOS.

I did not say that day was anywhere near now.
Note that you should not choose Ember if you are creating an app intended to be used on mobile, as it doesn't yet have code-splitting. This talk explains about why this is a hard requirement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4
I expect Xcode for iOS (or whatever they call it) to make its debut next year. It might come as a "lite" version or something like that but an app that allows you to make iOS app with iOS is something I'd bet a lot of money on.

Apple's 'Swift Playgrounds' for iOS was their first step towards turning iOS into a dev platform.
There's got be some non-political algorithms. Maybe tracking news articles to their sources (text/phrase similarity searching), showing sources, and flagging quality by accuracy of details? A few years of improvement on automatic text summarizing might be able to catch political "telephone" articles that erase and morph crucial details.
“In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world”
http://archive.is/baznf
Nicely spotted, I read the article and missed the irony there.
The fact that #1 is (partially) handled by the language also allows engineers to spend more time on #2.
Development on the ReactOS project started in 1996.
How I looked straight at my fears (and continued to feel scared)
I completely agree. I make heavy use of Firefox's "reader mode", and I wish it were enabled by default. It is by far superior to the normal experience with all that designery crap you're describing. Only very infrequently do I find an article that gets cut off or doesn't flow correctly in reader mode; I'd much rather just use it all the time, everywhere it's available, and disable it manually on the rare occasion I don't want it.
Let's see the alt-right turn up to peacefully protest and enact change through hard fought legislation and community action then.

They don't need anyone's help. Let their movement fail and maybe they'll protect yours next time.

I don't agree with conservatives on much, but we can sure agree on this:

Stop giving "participation awards" to people who clearly have lost.
Generally when referring to the JVM's performance people are talking about IBM J9, Azul Zing, HotSpot, etc, while Android has its own VM.

Additionally, most high-performance JVMs are optimized for long-running server applications, wile the CLR is optimized more for desktop applications (considerably better startup time, is fast without requiring lots of warmup, but doesn't do some of the very advanced optimizations JVMs tend to do). I suspect it would be easier to make the CLR performant on mobile than to make a JVM fast with constrained memory.

So basically, the CLR is probably already competitive on mobile devices. Does anyone know if Windows Phone uses a stock CLR or if they reimplemented it? Seems pretty snappy.
I was in Rajasthan a few months back. One of my favorite forms of art now! Some photos of (more architectural in nature) Rajput art in here. http://www.kylehotchkiss.com/photography/india-2016/
I buy them in PDF form and read them when I do cardio at the gym.
Red scare material packaged as a human interest story, now with a Democratic slant to adjust to a new Republican who is reportedly chummy with Russians. It's funny how they always say the KGB/SVR is the counterpart to the the CIA but never describe the CIA as the counterpart to the KGB/SVR.
What publication would you recommend instead if I'm looking for relatively unbiased, fact-based news?
Hulu Acquires Video Genome Project to Enhance Recommendations for Live TV, VOD
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why you back up all of your files locally.
Yes, I know, async I/O is the new cool thing. Here's an async I/O program from 1972.[1] John Walker wrote this. EXEC 8 had the IO$ system call, which, unlike IOW$, returned immediately. A "completion routine" was called when the I/O operation finished. Note how similar those libraries are to what's used today, now that people are reading Dijkstra again. The problem, of course, is that a callback system dominates the architecture of the entire program.

(When I moved from UNIVAC mainframes to UNIX, things seemed so sequential. No threads. No async I/O.)

[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fang/
'goto case' is a thing? I'm so going to have fun with that
I don’t exist in VR
Kotlin is missing monadic comprehension I'd say it's less powerful than C#.
fix:

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/* color: #000 !important; */
}
LinkedIn has actually done a ton of work optimizing Ember for mobile devices, and they've got code splitting (what we call lazy engines) in production already: https://twitter.com/trentmwillis/status/796748896659800064
Similarly, think about all the academic careers built on 'disproving' that Shakespeare authored his plays--which is especially troubling because so many academics put so much importance on their own college degrees they just have to chip away at the reputation of someone who didn't have one...