skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The violation, in a nutshell, involved consumers who bought their phones from Google’s Project Fi mobile operator, then shipped them to a reseller in New Hampshire, a state with no sales tax.

That looks a lot like Google's own tax minimization/avoidance policy, except they do it on a worldwide basis.
This is correct. We had 300-400 examples of each
Some of these post-election explanations are so ridiculous. Yes, I'm sure Twitter spam bots had a large material impact on the outcome of the election.
Ooh, could I use this to get ECDSA keys with configurable rounds of hash functions?

I might switch from putty to ConEmu with OpenSSH then. Presuming I can get ConEmu's look close enough to my putty.
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I definitely shouldn't have said 'coined', since coining usually refers to the first time that the term is used in a particular way. I have no idea if white nationalists coined the term.

I meant to say: 'brought the term to a level of prevalence such that their definition for the word is the most common usage', but even with that watered-down concept of "coining", I don't even know for certain that this is correct - that it was white nationalists who first did this.
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Nice, that's awesome
> And do others currently offer an equivalent?

And this here is why I use ad blockers.
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Sure, though that is actually possible - generative methods exist.

I just feel it's a lot of (cool) work for very little visual benefit.

It's neat, but the results are disappointing
There are obviously platform-specific implementations. In Clojure, core.async utilizes locks, and the original comment wasn't referring to ClojureScript.
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Hmm, I always thought the elaborate and ridiculous explanations were merely an embellishment of the joke. Kind of like the Church of the FSM. That's a lot of mental gymnastics, it's easier to believe the world is round and whatnot.
My (limited) experience with feeds online has been disappointing. Do you have examples of good feed implementations, especially at larger scales, such as what Facebook works at? What tech do they use?
People change, we like different stuff every day, with these curated feeds we eventually end up seeing only a few things because the algorithms are designed to predict patterns using very very subjective parameters.
Well, I'd like to see him pardoned. I just know it will never happen, and he had to know that as well when he did it. No government can afford to be seen as tolerant of this kind of action from within its own ranks. Perhaps as a result of Snowden there will be better ways for government employees to vent their concerns, but that likely won't help him out.
Funny you mention Breitbart, it's one of the rare media that didn't predict a landslide victory for Hillary.
I don't know... it seems to me that the real fun and games are just beginning.
Indeed, Disney laying off workers and only giving them severance if they trained their HCL and Cognizant bodyshop replacements, with the added sting of non-disclosure, well, that didn't play well with the sorts of people who "voted/supported Trump".

I'll add especially since it's strictly illegal to directly replace American workers with H-1Bs, but that's never been enforced to my knowledge. This whole "legal/illegal" thing has taken such a hit ... AG nominee Sessions has quite a task ahead of him. Another reason we voted for Trump.

Note also that that was a supremely boneheaded move for Disney, which is not just another corporate giant ... except perhaps it is, now....
It has/had exactly that system but with also positive descriptors.

I can't fault you - slashdot hasn't been relevant for.. at least a decade.
I challenge anyone to put together a robust definition of what "real news" is. This is a fundamentally unsolved problem at the philosophical level.
I don't really het the point of powershell making everything an object. If I wanted that I'd probably be in a python REPL.
I started having indicators of Carpal Tunnel about 10 years ago. I had heard good things about certain wrist supports while typing, but I'm a Systems/Network guy; so I frequently do other things than just sitting at my desk. Wearing a wrist guard was very inconvienent.

So, I started wearing one at night while I slept. It took a couple of months, but I've never had problems since.
While I'm certainly no denier of the scientific part of the global warming phenomenon, I tend to have healthy scepticism of these headlines which seem to solicit an alarmist reaction. Short-term weather can have high volatility and deviance from the norm, and that's nothing new.
Anybody know which microkernel they are using? I was not able to find it
I actually had this issue recently when trying to get training data for a project of mine as well [0], so I built an app [1] as a way to more easily classify documents.

Basically I have simpler interfaces and the ability for multiple people to quickly answer questions like this on a set of data. Easily exportable in the end as well. If you're interested in using that to get some more data on sentences, let me know. I'm really curious how much better the results get with more data, and this could help.

[0] https://bigishdata.com/2016/11/01/classifying-country-music-...

[1] https://fierce-mountain-21498.herokuapp.com/
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The problem is much more difficult than creating a classifier. The purpose of filtering news is to control the impact, not to control the tactic. The last time Facebook issued a surge to control 'spam' posts for the same government concerns they seek to deal with "fake news" today, they took out pro-Sanders articles, censored sharing of the Snowden documents, prevented people from linking to Wikileaks, and shut down Facebook organizing for May Day protests.

Facebook regularly censors and directs conversation online around the world to the whims of various regimes and administrations, but it's just not easy "use machine learning".

The issue is that machine learning is inherently modeled to solve decision problems in spaces that separate high level 'features' from low level observations. The study and practice of machine learning thus far has modeled noise, uncertainty and complex state spaces.

However, machine learning classifiers do not themselves have a concept of adversarial data: this led, for example, to spammers who would "poison" machine learning classifiers by biasing them to learn the wrong things, so that they could get their spam through. Similarly, not too long ago, Microsoft put a conversation bot on the web that 'learned the wrong things' because people approached the bot in an attempt to trick it.

Facebook's requirement for battling unsanctioned opinions is that it solves this problem - it hasn't been solved yet. Facebook needs to continuously monitor the adapting activity and patterns of people who are trying to say things that governments and Facebook customers don't want people saying.

Basically: machine learning doesn't adapt but people do, and naive attempts to get machine learning to adapt make it vulnerable to being tricked, because classifier theory inherently has no concept of adversarial data.
Reporting an event that actually happened.

How hard a concept is this, really?
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This whole fake news thing is ridiculous. Where is all of the outrage at CNN telling its viewers, falsely, that it's illegal for them to read Wikileaks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Wtu8Pzvd4

>“Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us.”

CNN has yet to apologize for, or even retract, this.

Where is the outrage at all of these "real news" outlets coordinating their messaging with the DNC? Where is the shock at them asking the DNC for questions to pose to Trump? Or the concern that Hillary Clinton was given multiple debate questions by a CNN employee?

The simple fact is that almost all media is propaganda. Depending on anyone, or anything, to protect you from "fake news" is laughable.
I don't have a dog in this show, but wouldn't that be quite reasonable/expected if they are skewed towards Republican/Trump?
While I fully agree mastery of the subject is vital to be able to get your point across with less sentences and/or words, it really needs some time to go over the text to make it worth the label "concise", which just doesn't exist in an exam.
It would help me if the author were to point more examples of what he means by "fake news". As it is, I can't really tell if he's really complaining about "Onion" style satire, copypasta with clickbait titles, evil government propaganda, or just political opinions that he disagrees with. Does a public training set exist that makes it clear what he's talking about? Does the division point he wants actually exist?

Snopes published an article yesterday asking that asks the question more clearly:

There is much bad news in the online world, but not all of it is "fake" (i.e., completely fabricated information that has little or no intersection with real-world events). There are also partisan political sites that take nuggets of real news and spin them into highly distorted, clickbait articles. There are sites that misleadingly repackage old news as if it were current information. There are sites that aggregate articles from a variety of dubious and questionable sources. There are sites (especially in the fields of health and science) that believe they're presenting pertinent information but are woefully inaccurate in their information-gathering and reporting. These forms of news are all bad in one way or another, but broadly classifying all such information as "fake news" clouds an already confusing issue.

http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/17/we-have-a-bad-news-problem-...
Thus article seems to support my conjecture that it's correlated to income.
> You can tell people that they're an enfranchised in-group...

This is not (and should not be) very meaningful for the individual.
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The time builtin is often less functional than the /usr/bin/time and does not have functionality like the -v parameter.
No. Google is fooled by fake news too.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/googles-top-search-result-for-fi...

I have some problem with those claims that offer little to none details. Use the above link as an example, how do we teach machine to verify this news? First, we need to teach them to formulate a question, in this case, 'Who has a larger number of popular vote [as of now]?', then it needs to find its way to verify the number from reliable sources, possibly need to struggle between conflicted sources as well.

This is no trivial, if we solve this, we might as well solve the problem of understanding human language as a whole.

The mentioning of Princeton students' Hackthon project is really offbeat, if the author really bothers to look into what that project actually is, nothing more than an API mashup.

https://github.com/anantdgoel/HackPrincetonF16/blob/master/b...

Disclaimer: I worked for a major news app, and the effort to battle fake news or low quality non-trustworthy news is ever growing. While application of machine learning is promising, human, especially experienced human is still the real workhorse for this problem

Edit: Typo.
Ah, that makes better sense. Thank you!
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I thought it was one of the more interesting parts of the article! Deploying a multi-week dose of anything in a single pill seems like a fantastic tool.
Here's an easy example:

http://abcnews.com.co/donald-trump-protester-speaks-out-i-wa...

Google is probably just as easy to fool as Facebook. This was the first hit on a search for "protesters paid to protest", a story that is demonstrably fake: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...

Immediate red flags should be: This isn't ABC News's website. There are statements in the article like: "No one still has an AOL email address except people that would vote for Hillary Clinton" and from a made up Trump supporter quoted saying "I knew those weren’t real protesters, they were too organized and smart..." and (awesomely) "I think I was paid more than the other protesters because I was white and had taken classes in street fighting and boxing a few years back".

I mean, this may well be parody, but it gets picked up as real news and he's making real money off it, impersonating a real news site, which is the point at which it cross the line from parody to fake, IMO.
My first reaction to this was to object to using machine learning to validate news stories, since it's very hard for a machine to go out into the world and verify that a story is based on reality. But the idea that fake news on Facebook is similar to the content farmed / bot generated / spammy stuff Google tries to eliminate, makes me think. The curious uptick of fake news over the last few months makes me wonder if Facebook either tried to, or was complicit in swaying public opinion before the election. I've long suspected that Google/Facebook technically have enough power to effectively decide an election by manipulating public opinion. But if they were going to do so, they'd attempt to do it in a way that doesn't make them look culpable. Someone should investigate.
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It can be ineffecient to generate and pass environments around, but it doesn't have to be, nor does it have to be a hack.

Compiling with continuations [0] gives you a very efficient output, and a lexical environment that is easily modified, and intuitive to exist. Combine that with Cheney on the MTA, and first class environments are no more costly than a lambda.

It is also possible to compile the initial environment [1], which makes it simpler to JIT any functions later linked to the structure.

I'm not sure why you think a compiler has to throw away the environment, its certainly not what MIT Scheme does, as environments are special forms that persist as you go down and up the stack. [2]

[0] http://matt.might.net/articles/cps-conversion/

[1] https://github.com/gambit/gambit/commit/09284455ae7c7e8dff4a...

[2] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-7.4/doc-html/...
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This description sounds quite communistic i guess..
But it works really well for everybody..
Some restructuring is necessary though- the whole affair is prone to dig into a technology-tree-branch and stay stuck there.
Yes, though presumably some extra services isn't much overhead. The transitive closure of services is.
Can it be forced to be computed at compile-time, by static_assert'ing on the result of the computation?
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i think the bigger question in wake of hillary's missing landslide, is whether facebook may actually be classifying CNN et. al. as 'fake' news.
This is great! I was looking for a domain name a few months ago and was typing keywords into google translate trying to find something that was decent and available.

Nicely done.
Thank you for the clarification. It makes more sense in this context.
You have to be more specific than 'exercise' for this type of injury. Biking (as sibling comment points out) does not put you in a very ergonomic position, and is primarily cardio. Biking is simply not going to improve things, and may make it worse.

What I've learned in the past two years of intense PT is the most important thing is to focus on fixing muscle imbalance through strengthening (specifically, avoiding upper crossed and lower crossed syndromes). These put the body in a better position and reduce the load on neck muscles, which in turn reduce referred pain and muscle tightness into the arms and wrists. Most RSI-like symptoms are actually problems starting in the neck.

Having a well-balanced body that is durable is an amazing protector against all sorts of poor physical environments. The article alludes to this by saying 'improve your posture', but that's not very specific - posture improves when you have better balance between muscle groups.

Of course, improving ergonomics, body mindfulness, getting adequate rest, temperature, etc are important as well, but those alone don't do it, nor does cardio.
That is quite a claim. Not sure if you mean popular or electoral but that does not seem to be the trend and it would pretty much have to be electoral. Last time someone won by 80% was Bush #1 in 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
Please stop posting like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your interpretation matches my experience, too. It seems more like the mind uses pain and anxiety to call attention to the fact that something is wrong, rather than to distract us.
Those were bad times. Trying to get someone updated when you didn't have a firewall to put in front of a friend's box was really hard.
You'll see the left bias in the editorial pieces, but in news stories the writing is as neutral as I've seen. In Montreal, the alternatives are the Journal de Montréal (too much gossip, not enough hard information), La Presse (very good, liberal bias), The Gazette (liberal bias). Another important reason that pushed me toward Le Devoir: it's the only paper (not just in Canada, but everywhere I've looked) that has a PDF version; you get facsimile of the paper edition, which is very nice to read with something like zathura.
"As an Emacs user"... Switch to Vim. Problem solved.
Ummm,considering that until recently, FB was second only to google in Deep learning, i would beg to differ.
You can tell this site has no credibility based on the other articles on the site.

I think the trick with a machine learning approach to identifying these sites is not letting the model fixate on particular words (e.g. Obama or Moon Landing could be terms with the right dataset; though if they occur together maybe that's a good indicator after all...)
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Not as simple as this because some tools create a working copy of a file when it's being modified, and then replace original file once changes are saved. Mapping these changes to the same file "identity" likely v. error prone.
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And that report is just the facts? I haven't seen real news in a couple decades then. Better just filter it all.
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You can't tell me that Clinton lost the election. You're just biased against democrats. ;)
Very. Prove I went to a restaurant yesterday. You could show a video of me at a restaurant, but is it from yesterday, or some other day. Is it really me there, or someone that looked like me.
A better example would be NYT or WSJ, as CNN is obviously fake news [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
The media industry in the United States, primarily because it functions as a propaganda medium for state narrative, has increasingly been losing credibility with its audience.

The 'fake news' thing, the 'troll' thing before that, the 'political spam' thing before that: these are attempts to prevent the manifestations of credible alternatives that can attract funding, challenge the doctrinal ideology espoused by the network of media, or further disrupt the reputation of the current infrastructure for engaging in public diplomacy.
What man page? What 'man'?
Isn't the premise of the article, that all software's gone? Good luck reading anything digital. Even better if you only have PDF files..
IIRC g++ had historically a machine generated parser (bison maybe?) But it got replaced around 3.0 time because the new hand written parser was faster and more maintainable.
There should be away for users to combine alarms with and/or blocks in hospitals. That way the cacophony would be reduced to the important cases.
⌃⇥ actually does work in Terminal.app. And in fact, ⌃⇥ and ⌃⇧⇥ are the official keyboard shortcuts in the menu, with ⌘{ and ⌘} being undocumented aliases. This is also how Safari works too.
Yet it is good to change position, and to reflect on why they got it wrong. This is just grasping at straws, there is no data they use to back their conclusion. It seems merely a thought, a thought that is then published as a fact.
And I am seeing so many of these articles these days, I am sure the fly landing on Hillary can be blamed for Trump winning.

It looks like an interesting read, thank you.

"But the reasons for Donald Trump’s rise exist outside the Overton Window, and thus cannot be understood by anyone stuck within its confines. Yet for those not so confined the reasons for Trump’s rise are obvious."
The article states that the US military investigated it, so it's not an odd thing to say at all.

> In any case various international experts have stated that there is a viable case for war crimes to be made, based on the video evidence.

"Various international experts" can be counted on to pronounce any military activity whatsover by the United States as a war crime (while ignoring or even excusing the behavior of non-Western states), so that's of little use.
Do poor writers make poor programmers?
Is this a cable modem? If so, that's just how it works. It downloads its configuration file (via TFTP) when it boots up (per DOCSIS).
Not according to my logic, no. If I wanted a candidate to win, I'd imagine it would be better for me to propagandize predictions that my candidate would lose, as to motivate more of his/her supporters to actually vote.
The main problem with foot notes in electronic form vs print is the lack of pages.

In print you can glance slightly down for the foot note and the back up with out too much effort. In electronic form "without pages" it can be a significant effort to find your place again. < a >'s being remarkably unreliable.

Grantland often used marginalia which usually worked well but tragically is non trivial.
Because it's the same keyboard shortcuts that Safari uses, and in Safari ⌘[ and ⌘] navigate the history stack.
I don't like this; their general MO has always been google giveth, and google can take it away. Introducing inconsistency can only lead to more people trying to disagree post-facto with google, and eventual lawsuits
I went to an occupational therapist and she gave me a program of exercises and as long as I do them I can keep my RSI in check. I definitely recommend occupational therapy if you think you are developing RSI. Of course you should also make basic ergonomic improvements like getting your keyboard at the right height (unless you have a keyboard tray it probably isn't); those are helpful too.

e: Also the Sarno book this guy recommends has always struck me as pseudo-scientific nonsense. I like Pascarelli and Quilter's Repetitive Strain Injury and Damany's It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!

e2: Also if your first impulse is to go buy a wrist brace that is completely wrong.
Hmm, going back through my old .py files, I ultimately did start using Tkinter... and for some reason thought yaml was really important...

Still, would have been nice to have a program that essentially took in and put out text without learning everything about GUI elements.

I'd never written anything with a GUI before, and "I'd like to see unicode" is a really weird place to dive in.