skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's that combined with the echo chamber effect of their algorithms. I've watched a diverse group of smart and average people across political spectrum this election. Most of them consistently shared unsubstantiated claims or biased media. As expected, their media was always presenting evidence for their side and agsinst the other. Corporate media always did that for maximizing ratings and ad impressions.

However, there's a difference. People often had these discussions face to face with other views visible or at least some consequences for bullshitting. Now, the like-minded naturally group together with Facebook making the others (esp moderates) largely disappear from the feed. Showing them what they wanted to see with convenience of scrolling past opposing beliefs reinforced the echo chambers and false beliefs. That few counterpoints are displayed reinforces it further by creating illusion of false consensus for their side. All the resulting upvotes and shares reinforce the algorithm's effect.

I speculate such things are why the divide seemed so much stronger in this election than before. They need to bump into each other more for the necessary conversations to occur. The tech increases isolation instead. The effects will only get worse over time.
Some of the engineers in my office developed http://elide.io/ which Is an actively developed Server side Java Json-api library.
> 3. Stop Windows tax / Windows bundling anti-competitive practices.

well bundling is not a problem for me. I mean most people will use windows no matter how much better linux gets.

however the bigger problem is that windows actually allows vendors to create shitty drivers and fix shitty hardware within there kernel, that should not happen. windows should ONLY allow signed drivers for companies that are willing to create specifications for their devices.
I can and will do this. What about information that only a few dozen people have access to, or costs thousands of dollars?

Best-journalism (dubious claim) or not, news aggregators and HN should serve the general public and not special access groups.
That's like expecting ps3 game to work on Xbox.
I've backed it too! :)
I can still chat with Google users via Adium. I suppose if they're not using XMPP they're doing something else, but if Adium supports it, it's probably in libpurple, which means Pidgin and other OSS clients can do it too.
I never knew you could get a job writing automation scripts. That's pretty cool.
This really seems like it needs to be regulated in law. For telephone companies, there are rules about when they may disconnect you, e.g. the Arizona Utilities Division write

> f I am unable to pay my entire bill, what can I do to maintain local dial tone?

> The Arizona Administrative Code specifically states that a telephone company may not disconnect a customer for failure to pay an unregulated portion of their bill. To maintain local service, you must pay for the regulated (landline) charges on your telephone bill while you work to resolve problems with the other portion of your bill. If you fail to pay the unregulated charges on your bill, those services may be subject to disconnection and a deposit to reestablish. (R14-2-509)

> How much notice does a telephone company have to give before disconnecting service?

> A telephone company is required to give 5 days advance written notice before disconnecting service. (R14-5-509 Section E)

In this case, Google killed people's email without any prior warning, and in retaliation for an unrelated business transaction (selling smartphones). Having your email disrupted like that is at least as bad as getting your phone cut off.
Someone can want a diamond, someone can want to be given a diamond, these are slightly different things.
After watching the film snowden there is a part in the film. Which goes that he was scared of a new leader been elected and flicking a switch. It looks like Teresa May flicked that switch and she wasn't even elected.
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Except that following the feed gives you terrifying news that may affect you personally and isn't true, because no-one dares question it and it spreads rapidly. For example, I happened to take a note of the two most retweeted claims of Trump-related hate crimes I saw right after the election so I could follow what happened with them later - both turned out to be fake.
My first job out of Uni was making "games" for slot machines. My soul is forever damaged (not joking). I have horror stories over how much thought goes into the "design."

In a given jurisdiction (State/Province/County) there will be rules about the payout percentage. Anywhere from 90 to 98%. So lets assume 95% percent payout. In the long run, you give me a dollar, I give you back $0.95. Most of the time its zero, sometimes its a bit more than you put in to spin and once in a blue moon its huge. But, on average, you give me a dollar, I give you $0.95.

This is where biology / psychology comes into play. All the games from all the manufactures pay the same (in the long run) in a given state (its the law). The trick is to find the magic reward frequency (think Skinner box from Psych 1000). Occasionally a huge one with not much in between? Lots of little wins and hardly any super huge jackpots? Most of the reward frequencies don't work. The person can escape thinking the game is not fun. There are a few rare evil/magic frequencies that just trap the poor person.

Here is where it gets super evil. When one manufacturer's new game starts to do well in market, other manufacturers will do research (study the content of the reels (the spinning things) from a video capture) and reverse engineer the game's math/reward frequency.

So the same way that AI RNN is a exploring a multidimensional problem space and trying to jump out of local optima to find the true optimal solution. The gambling industry is exploring the dimensions of the mind trying to find the optimal Skinner box to take all your money. They are exploiting a bug in our brains design. We evolved to run around the Savannah and throw things with weird accuracy. We just are not built to defend against it. They should be banned.
CoreCLR, the same used in .NET Core
> Your idea that men and Jews are equivalently oppressed

Which is not, in fact, what I said. Or what I believe. But why let facts interfere with a good flamewar?

> you seem to believe it is invalid to point out that these situations are different and require different responses

You're missing my point. Which is explained in simple English FFS.

> The evidence you provide is an overtly anti-Semitic subreddit

Uh... no. You don't seem to be able to understand rhetoric or analogy.

No one in that subreddit advocates anti-semitism. Instead, they re-write hateful articles to show that they have the same tone and style as anti-semitic articles. And that both are wrong.

Your interpretation of these analogies is that the people are actually advocating the opinions they're mocking.

Which (again) entirely misses the point. Depressingly so.

> I see a world where the "oppression" of men takes the form of a handful of anecdotes of people saying mean things

Like advocating for the genocide of men? Which isn't entirely saying "mean things".

> The willful non-recognition that these are different types of issues that require different responses is naked bigotry.

I think your hostility comes from a point of view which prevents you from understanding what I've written.

I've tried to make it as clear as I can. Genocide is bad. Advocating for genocide is bad.

Anyone should be able to understand that.

Your point is that advocating for the genocide of some people isn't really that bad... because jewish people had it worse.

If you can't understand the immorality of such a statement, I have little more to say. If the only way you can defend such actions is to label me an anti-semite, well, that's your delusion. You're welcome to it.
400TB adds up to writing more than 200GB, every day, during 5 years. That's a lot.

On top of that, manufacturers are conservative on these ratings. There's a test somewhere on the web where they tested life expectancy of an EVO 840, and it took 800TB before failure. The new one could be even better in that regard.
Do you have a link about those USSR ships left in Africa? I'd love to learn more about them.
It was in reference to that, in the context of the larger body of text that has been written about intelligence services. Even when the CIA is the subject, I don't think I've ever seen them presented as America's version of [other country's intelligence service] (especially not the bad guys). But the other direction has been so common over the years that it's begun to stand out when I see it.
google is not good at making and fostering languages, C# and .net is much better bet
Your reply lead to a much more productive discussion than your downvote.
Just for fun / boredom, if he was granted $100,000 worth of shares every year since 1997 and reinvested his dividends after they started paying out, he'd have somewhere near 800,000 shares today worth nearly $85 million.
Yes, and? It still compiles Swift code. Expect Xcode for iOS at WWDC2017.
Check out their glassdoor. [1]

Most of the complaints are either about working hours, or how incredibly out of touch the C-level management is.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889.h...
Windows, remember? The OP is building a program on his Mac and sending it to his Windows-using friend. Windows has a "find" command, but it's a full-text search thing, unlike on *nix where it does find-by-name.

See: http://www.computerhope.com/findhlp.htm
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil. I work at a medical device manufacturer that does it right, and when such shoddy products and process get passed off as viable, like they did at Theranos, it's never not on purpose. Everyone in charge there is a hack fraud and well aware of what they did. But I doubt they'll ever experience any negative consequences beyond temporary business setbacks.

Shultz seems alright. Too bad it takes someone fresh out of school with little to loose and not yet jaded to blow the whistle.
Saying that it influenced the election isn't the same as saying that it is solely responsible for the outcome, don't be disingenuous.
Here's a classic example, though the original website is down, so I linked to the Facebook Debug tool:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%...
Well, buying failing startups because of their engineers also helps pad exec investments in those startups.

Keeping an employee does not.
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This is so low and childish that I am sure only Google could do something like this.
There are plenty of laws that protect you, but using them to defend yourself can be incredibly expensive. It's never a good idea to piss off a vindictive person with money (Or a retired lawyer.)
Willing to bet if any of them were Google Fi or Google Fiber customers, their phones would be cut off as well. Of course, much of their fight with AT&T over pole attachment rights has been Google's unwillingness to be classified as a "telecom"[0]. I suspect Google is very unwilling to be held to these sorts of legal responsibilities.

"Basically, the current regulations require companies with utility poles in the public rights of way to provide access to certified telecommunications providers and to TV/cable companies," Paul Lewis, assistant manager of telecommunications and regulatory affairs in Austin, told Ars. "Google is not a certified telecommunications provider, and it's a video service provider as opposed to a television/cable company."

If Google were to apply to the Public Utility Commission of Texas to become a qualified telecom, "It would make them subject to all of the state and federal telecommunications regulations," Lewis said.

[0]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/why-att-says-it-c...
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Windows Server just got more expensive with Server 2016.
please stop forcing your views of how this site should work on everyone else. this site doesn't exist solely for you and your views. Others, perhaps, have alternative views
Hey, 20 years come get your reduction prize. This guys salary is probably a rounding error on a spreadsheet but what he knows about Apple in any line of their business would be worth the money. Just a shame.
You own your data, just not the box it is stored in or the gate you pass through to get to the box.
"Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If you change the return type of a method without using var you would still have the exact same problems. That's not an actual problem.

I've used var since it came out years ago and never had this autocompletion problem you talk about.

You sometimes had to explicitly declare a type in foreach loops, but that had more to do with shitty legacy APIs that used abstract classes as return types. Wasn't really var's fault though.
It's time now for all the VCs and entrepreneurs who supported Holmes to now come out and say that this behavior is abhorrent and should not be tolerated.

But they won't.
Indeed, I think a text mode button is a needed and worthy UI addition in FF and chrome.
Are you telling me that the richest and most valuable company in the world can't coordinate security patches of two of its biggest OSes that share a lot of kernel code?
They also open sourced MSBuild
Yes it does, thanks!
> For example, I have friends who flat out refused to read any of the WikiLeaks e-mails that could potentially reveal something bad about Hillary, her campaign, the DNC, or any entity on the left.

That's because of things like the "spirit dinner" bullshit or an email chain discussing drug pricing being reduced to "HILLARY FOUGHT LOWER DRUG PRICES".

When every single email is apparently awful evil shit then it's hard to differentiate things that are actually bad.

Show me some emails that you actually believe should convince someone not to vote for Clinton. Especially over Trump. Keeping in mind that the screwing around in the Primary isn't enough, and that I'm willing to accept a candidate I don't particularly like all that much.
For everyone who hasn't read it yet, a long article on how Theranos began to collapse: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...
Wow, way to burn trust in your brand over a few hundred phones.
Neighbors can takeover Harman/Kardon Soundsticks Bluetooth speakers from standby
This is ridiculous. Standby mode allows pairing with whatever Bluetooth device is around and asks for it, no security measures. Harman/Kardon customer service admitted there is no way to prevent this. Why are they allowed to sell this?
There is a small typo on the site. "Preview maps we have build" should be "Preview maps we have built"
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I'm impressed that they managed to get Blender working:

https://reactos.org/sites/default/files/imagepicker/14095/bl...

Wow. Firefox, too.
I hear it's worst on Android.
Well, like I said in the other comment, you guys could fix that by unbundling the static checker in the Rust compiler and making it applicable to (a subset of) C++ code as well :)

So then would you agree with the notion that (a practical subset of) C++ combined with a static analyzer could be just as safe and fast as Rust if, hypothetically, there existed an enthusiastic community comparable to Rust's? Or are there intrinsic technical issues? Or syntax issues?

Also, let me throw this notion at you: Rather than disallow code that can't be verified to be (memory) safe, the compiler could instead inject runtime checks that would be optimized out using the same analysis that the static checker uses.

That is, instead of requiring that the code be fast and safe or it won't compile, it becomes: If your code is not clearly, intrinsically safe then it will have runtime checks that will slow it down. And the compiler could list any runtime checks that it wasn't able to optimize out.

The reason I suggest this is that memory safety is just the enforcement of certain invariants. There's no reason why we couldn't let the programmer define additional, application specific invariants and have the build process treat them the same way it treats memory access invariants.

So for example, when a user defines a class, it could have a standard member function called "assert_object_invariants()" or something, that the programmer can define. Then anytime a (non-const?) member function is called, the compiler can insert runtime asserts at the beginning and end of the member function call. And again the compiler can tell you when those runtime asserts aren't optimized out. Wouldn't that make sense? I haven't really thought it through.
Automation in macOS appears to be remaining as strong as ever. What makes you think it has suffered?

In fact, I believe macOS gives you more control than Windows.
Interviews with VCs and Entrepreneurs are dime a dozen nowadays. What I see missing is resources which help technical people think about business aspects. How does one understand/analyze competition, market size, customers etc.

I really liked AMA from YC partners here on hacker news. They answered a few questions about how one should things about early stage starting up. I would like to see more of such things.
Had the same thing happen where I pointed out something was false to an acquaintance who shares frequently and he said "well we each play our part, thankfully there are people like you" or something to that affect.

The idea that it was my job to screen the bullshit...

I didn't delete my facebook but I did unfollow every person and group on the app and it has been quite pleasurable to have an empty newsfeed.
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You've got to up the text size or shorten the distance in VR to be comfortable, which is the annoying part I think will be solved in the next gen.

I get around this by adding multiple emulated displays (using Headless Ghost / Compulab Emulator) that are visible only in VR. Gives more room for window placement.

I'm used to working with 2-6 monitors on the desktop so it's natural for me to extend that into VR, but some people don't like the head movement needed.
Windows 10 just cost me $200, on a new computer. This after a different copy of Windows 10 killed my previous computer motherboard dead during a forced reinstall due to an incompatibility between Windows 7 and Windows 10 (the HD was accessed by Windows 7 on another computer, after still other Windows 10 problems that began the whole debacle.) So that's one computer and $200 that Windows 10 has cost me, lately.
This just disgusts me. This is the problem with giving everything we rely on to a for profit corporation like Google, et al.

It's not your data if they can take it away from you. Your data is their profit center so we should demand more of these companies or simply avoid them as much as possible.
The casino industry is full of contradictions. Steve Wynn's father was a degenerate gambler who died with serious gambling debts. Sheldon Adelson, who has made billions from gambling addiction, has spent millions fighting online gambling. Why? Here's a direct quote [1]:

"[My father] was poor, but he loved to gamble. I saw the cost of a family immersion into losing money on gaming. When I look at people like that, I see the faces of my parents."

Yet he has no issues with taking money from such families on an unprecedented scale - as long as it's in person. You have to be very...."morally flexible"......to work anywhere near the gaming industry. It is built specifically to create and exploit gambling addiction - roughly 50% of revenue comes from 2% of players.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2014/10/20/g2e-201...
Yeah, but there's no diversity of economic opinion in America. Just capitalist ones.

You'd have to move to China to get a top-tier PhD in Marxist theory. Why is that?...
MS's Scala equivalent would be F# which was out in 2005.

This is just adding more functional programming aspects to their dominant language.
It should be pretty obvious that security is not solely the responsibility of your compiler. I mean, if your OS is compromised, in can inject code into whatever you're running, whether it be rust code or not. Anyone trying to make iron-clad systems needs to understand the whole system.

But if you're not trying to do that, it's nice that you don't have needless and easy-to-avoid weaknesses like those your compiler could prevent.
You may want to deconstruct the value and use the original base value. This seems entirely logical, and consistent with most implementations in functional languages (and I'd say makes TypeScript's implementation the poor one - although I haven't seen it myself to have an opinion on).
I would shit bricks if my Google account was suspended. It is the super node that connects pretty much every other service that I use.
I honestly think it's impossible to find truly unbiased news sources. That being said, at least most trusted biased sources still root their information in facts and have journalistic integrity. I'm not going to throw out NYT, WP, NPR, Vox, WSJ, National Review, etc. just because they lean in particular directions.

If anything, I'd rather have news sources that are widely known to lean a certain side, because then I know their potential bias beforehand, which I can balance it out by reading articles from opposing publications.
Thank you for reading it. My choice of quote wasn't the best, as i am not equipped to interpret the fine details correctly in entirety. However i am happy that my overall disagreement is shared.

And i agree, that while more subtle, the points you pointed out represent a far further reaching and far more dangerous misunderstanding of the purpose of law.

There are in my opinion many details like this that many voters were not aware of, either through deception, omission or just plain lack of time to research. And to be sure, there will be such details about Clinton.

However, on balance, i am confident that Trump and the people he surrounds himself with represent a much bigger danger to the lifelihood and health of innocent people than Clinton would've been, if only because the fact that such things are said publicly indicate that restraint is not something they bother with even for appearances.