skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sorry, can you expand on this? You're saying NYT is the "king of fake news", but the email you're linking to is:

- not for the NYT, it's for NYT Magazine

- not about a news piece, it's for a family-friendly profile

And, even given that, the actual contents of the email is validating quotes - verifying quotes correctness and giving the subject an opportunity to retract is standard practice for a "friendly" profile like this, any interview subject sitting for a similar piece would get the same email.
Of all the things I've made ( here https://gen517.com) there are a couple that stand out in hindsight:

https://zip.gen517.com

Which is a tool so people who don't know anything about programming or fancy excel usage can still do SQL join type things.

And this version of the classic game mastermind, which I use in conversation to make the point that "machine learning" can be tremendously approachable -- the computer here just picks a random potentially correct guess and does very well.

https://countermind.gen517.com

And this, which is massively pointless but has gotten more comments than anything else:

https://gen517.com/lindsey-grahams-get-away-with-ted-cruzs-m...
http://easydecisionmaker.com/

Simple single function tool decision maker. I made this because my co-workers and I always had trouble deciding where to go for lunch. It was kind of a joke but then the traffic kept growing and I now consider it a huge success as a side project.
I don't think the claim is free energy. The claim is no propellant. So you might still need tons of energy to get a decent acceleration.

If it's working, it's just not clear by what mechanism the energy is being converted to momentum.
Very, very true. This entire area owes most of its economic recovery to BMW.
I'd actually say neither the GOP nor the Democrats are heading towards a demographic death.

GOP isn't going anywhere because of the birth rate of religious groups, and the fact that religious immigrants tend to skew right the longer they've been in the country.

The Democrats aren't going anywhere because of the rate of attrition from religious groups. They have lower birth rates than the Republicans, which balances things out.

Balance of power is going to depend on:

1. The ratio of birth rates
2. The level of religious attrition in future generations

Look at that. It's all about the children :-)

I left fringe groups out of both sides.
Rent stabilized (they can't change it more than some % per year), but in my experience not far off the market.

To be sure, there are $3000 1-bedroom apartments around as well.
Depending on how much you're willing to assume and what exactly counts as "one line," it could be as simple as:

> One plus the product of all primes is itself prime, and larger than all primes.

This omits a bunch of stuff, but it seems like less than the linked paper.
Or it might just be that reactionless drives can make nukes look like firecrackers, while presumably also being a lot harder to restrict access to. And thus would make a very good 'great filter' candidate.
Do you have any articles about it? A quick search only found that he attempted to start one and Trump supporters rejected the idea. I'm curious how much he spent compared to CTR's 4.5 million.

https://www.engadget.com/amp/2016/09/22/oculus-founder-palme...
These guys are doing some pretty great stuff. See also https://github.com/edevil/kubernetes-deployment for their K8s deployment scripts.
WhatsApp has an optional auto-backup feature that periodically backs up your messages to Google Drive (iCloud on iOS?). You can find it under Settings > Chats > Chat backup. It is an extremely smart way to allow users to backup their messages if needed, while also ensuring that WhatsApp doesn't have access to the backups.

Once you activate a new phone, it will ask if you want to restore your messages from the latest backup. I guess it's using your Play Store account credentials to tie your SIM cards and phones together.
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Except for all the crap about "targeted advertising", it turns out that if you run a site like StackOverflow, you can more accurately target adverts to your average user by curating the adverts than by letting some system try and guess based on whatever they have managed to sniff.

More importantly, the automated stuff is a huge security risk, and will generally annoy your users when someone puts out something they shouldn't, even if it's not a security issue.

Sure, they could saturate the pages with more crap adverts no one wants, and they would sell for less (because they would be less effective), and they'd piss off their user base.

SO has long been one of the very, very few on my adblocking whitelist. I don't dislike adverts as a core idea, but 99% of advertising online is invasive, annoying and useless.
I'm in! I finally have the startup but started as solo founder. Took me a while to put a team together, took me a while to get seed funding, is taking me while now to scale sales... basically everything takes a while, and a while longer if you are a solo founder. I'd love to participate.
I've been coding for 6 months. What open source project can I even remotely understand?!
I've only seen these sites being accused of being leftist, so shouldn't there be a market for a right-leaning one?
They scroll via javascript. I guess there could be hash fallbacks.
> decrease the spread of misinformation

This rings very "Ministry of Truth" to me. Scary stuff that companies even consider policing this when it's completely not their job. Our social networks should not be deciding what's true and what isn't for us.
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They mention that a lot of the jobs that might be displaced are some of the more skilled ones like doctors or lawyers, because those are tasks that machines can do well. I wonder if we'll see a weird shift where parents begin encouraging their kids to get involved with the arts rather than becoming a doctor, because it will be the more sound career choice?
> Donations would put them at the mercy of others whims.

Yes, which is why I assume they didn't even bother putting up a donate button. The thing that convinced me to post anyway is that it's probably very clear to a lot of people that it is definitely worth supporting. Much more than the Archive project or the Tor project, this is something I know people use so much every day and get tremendous value from. That's why it might just work in this case, similar to Wikipedia.

It's also not exclusive, they can totally put up donations and try to attract some attention for it by posting it to their own ad system, and at the same time continue with all the current efforts.
According to my knowledge current car motor efficiency is about the same than power plants: gasoline car motor 40%, diesel car motor 43%, coal burning power plants 30-45%, gas burning power plants around 30% efficiency. All numbers are from Wikipedia.

But even if power plants would be more efficient (meaning producing more energy for the same fuel input) it still would make no difference from a CO2 emissions point of view after all fuel has been burnt...
Yes -- just look at Pi_0^inf(.1), the partial products are just 0.1^n, and the limit of that as n goes to infinity is zero.
>> You're trying awfully hard to dislike a movie you haven't seen.

I am. I do try hard. I've been burnt by too many movies. If am only going to see one in a given month (at the theatre) I don't want to waste that opportunity. I don't think I am alone in heavily criticizing how a movie is promoted as part of the decision. One of the reasons I went to DrStrange was that the movie had not been so heavily promoted. It's a standard superhero movie, but the lack of exaggerated claims gave me confidence.

The last time I allowed someone else to take me to a "critically acclaimed" movie I ended up cringing through Twelve Years a Slave. Or Contact, which I only sat through because I was with people. If Arrival is anything like Contact I want to know that in advance.
> Namely, they will see the part that if P = p1 p2 p3...pn + 1 and p|P then p|1 and not think that this does itself require justification.

While your point that every step of a proof requires justification is a good one, this is really, really easy to verify. That doesn't excuse one from actually giving that justification, in the course of a formal proof; but there's at least as much implicit knowledge bound up in the linked proof. (For example, one needs the existence of sine, its 2π-periodicity, the fact that it is positive from 0 to π/2 ….)
https://ifcfg.me

I know there are a bunch of similar sites outside however I wanted something simple with no ads but all information.
If it is an Android phone with Google Play store then it is definitely Google's fault. Maybe Google should stop manufacturers from installing Android on their phones when they are doing things like this.

You want me to tell you why Google won't do anything, because Google doesn't give a crap about what manufacturers do as long as they keep installing Android on as many phones as possible and in return they get more advertising dollars.
It's not "off". My workstation running Windows 10 Enterprise still makes a lot of network calls (even explorer.exe) not related to Windows update. I never came across an in-depth analysis of what exactly is being sent, please share if you know of one.

---

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

The lowest telemetry setting level supported through management policies is Security.

[Security Security data only. 0]

Information that’s required to help keep Windows, Windows Server, and System Center secure, including data about the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component settings, the Malicious Software Removal Tool, and Windows Defender.

The Security level gathers only the telemetry info that is required to keep Windows devices, Windows Server, and guests protected with the latest security updates. This level is only available on Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise, and Windos IoT Core editions.
As others have said, the proof relies on some trig facts (Though maybe you can replace `sin` with any zero-crossing periodic function). But it's worse than that.

The only proof I can see for the second equality there depends on showing the numerator is composite. And that in turn depends on something very like the argument you mention.

So unless there is a much simpler proof of that equality, the proof is only a "one liner" because it leaves Euclid's argument as an exercise to the reader.
My company put this together and it seems to get some love on github: https://osrec.github.io/currencyFormatter.js/

Originally built to help an internal project but we later open sourced it. It's great to see the stars go up!
This right here is exactly the problem.

A nihilistic viewpoint that nothing at all is knowable, because every source of information is equally suspect.

This is kind of why we humans invented science, you know, so we might actually figure out some things about the world.

Randomly selected Politifact article:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/nov/...

Not just their opinion, but how they arrived at that opinion. Links to Billboard's data on Jay-Z and Beyonce's concert attendance, and Trump's own claims about his crowds.

Reality doesn't always just come down to differing opinions. Many things are actually knowable, to anyone willing to investigate and entertain the possibility they are wrong.
The article mentions that the test was ran at only 80W of power, surely that could be scaled up to a few thousand watts and a more appreciable result could be seen even with another ground based test?
Who is defending fake news? Fake news are loathsome. Besides, I care less about elections. My beef is with the timing and promoters of the issue.
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absolutely, and if I recall, he did it his first live try.

It was definitely impressive but as a software person I'm more impressed by the ones who came up with the hack itself.
They might have. But I also wonder if those drives were among the first after the 2011 Thailand floods, and if Seagate's factories were still a bit dirty after resuming production.
> then Sequoia's "RIP Good Times" presentation came out in October.

I worked at a Sequoia-funded company at the time. It was bad... hiring ground to a near-halt, and attrition was used to shrink the engineering department. Eventually, I got laid off over a year later (February 2010), and by that time we weren't any financially better off than when Sequoia made that presentation. The reason for my layoff was because our VCs had given us less money during our Series D than we were expecting.
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One distinction with newspapers is that people pay subscriptions for newspapers. This changes the relationship between the consumers, the publishers, and the advertisers.
Apple's $300 book contains 450 photos of Apple products
Couldn't you just change "divisors' product" to "factorial's"? I guess that it does some violence to the metre.
I don't see much evidence for that claim.
You got as much rigor as you gave. Disproving every wacky position with a careful analysis is impossible, nobody has that much time.
> in short, conservation of momentum cannot be violated

Why?
Well if there is no work left to be done, so be it I guess? I don't think you should feel bad about that :)
Very cool! Really beautiful output.

Curious why you're using pipes to communicate when you can use CGO to make the go stuff it's own static C library and communicate bidirectionally that way? Granted it's a bit more complex than that sounds (I've did this to bring v.io to iOS), but I'd figure that'd still be easier than the alternative?
I don't think that's true. There seems to be a view that nobody can try to be objective and the objective doesn't exist. I'm a scientist by training and trade, and in my experience the real world is pretty damn objective. Something happened, or it didn't. Something is true or it's not. I used to say as a grad student that nature didn't care whether I graduated.

Granted it's not always easy to get good data, and it's not always obvious what's clearly true. But where possible, we should embrace it, and where it's hard, then we should have a clear discussion about what we can and cannot believe.

Fact checkers in my experience do a good job of that, they present a clear picture of what is known and what isn't, and they take that responsibility very seriously. If someone tends to make more false statements than someone else, that doesn't mean pointing that out is biased, it's just reporting the facts. Sometimes reality is biased.
Apple's newest product is a $300 photo book
The moment we get overconfident in our understanding of the universe is the moment that understanding stops advancing.
Politifact is an excellent resource for that.

They site all of their sources, so you can check for yourself, and decide whether or not you trust the sources.
Apache Spark is agnostic to storage layer.
You can read the book about The Radioactive Boy Scout:

https://www.amazon.com/Radioactive-Boyscout-Story-Nuclear-Re...

But IIRC the everyday items were smoke detectors with Americium and uranium from old painted clock dials. I think he found a full vial of dried uranium paint hidden inside some random old clock at an antique store.
No law restrains nature but nature's own.

Do not tell nature what it can and cannot do.

(Evidence, of course, weighs very heavily against the EmDrive. But this sort of "it can't be doing that because that's against natural law" is just as unscientific.)
Are you talking about the nimble navigator thingie he tried running on reddit/The_Donald?
I like that it only allows watching, not interacting; that makes the security implications of someone obtaining the URL much less serious.
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Consider the product of the sequence which has ½ repeated N times. The product is (½)^N; which halves each time. If we want the product to go below x, then we can plug in N > log2(1/x). Since for any x > 0 we can find an N, we say lim (½)^∞ = 0.

tl;dr Basically, as N goes to infinity, the product gets arbitrarily close to 0.
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Using the factorial is better, I think, even if ahistorical; it avoids the slight unpleasantness of having to show that every non-unit integer is divisible by a prime.
Yes, definitely there is more information implicitly wrapped into the sine proof. That's why it's not simpler. However, it is not a worse proof either. It's just a different one that is clever and can help to reinforce concepts from trigonometry.
You can also buy a beer for folks who actually wrote an answer you used if you ever meet them IRL. I bet direct revenue from users would be negligible by the other revenue streams Stack Overflow Inc pursues.
I do quite enjoy that survivorship bias!
> If you mark it as spam, we’ll unsubscribe you.

How would they know?
> Authorities can selectively block WhatsApp voice calls, it's been done in Oman where I used to live.

But they cannot do it without WhatsApp's help. My understanding is that WhatsApp will check the following at the server side:

1) User IP in UAE/Oman/etc.? Block voice.

2) User's number registered in UAE/Oman/etc.? Block voice.

This is different from UAE/Oman blocking voice traffic without coordination with WhatsApp.
No, but they were probably planning (originally) to license the software. Maybe not at the full $1,000 retail or for 550,000+ computers... I wonder how the software would compare to the commercial offering if they had hired 100 independent contractors at $150k to develop it in the open.

Incidentally, it looks like development was funded in part by the German government, but I can't find anything to indicate how much. http://www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/2013/bsstudio
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Honestly didn't even think of that. Might have to look into it.
If you define the value of an infinite operation as its limit, as mathematicians normally do, then you can make a limit argument for an infinite product of many numbers 0<n<1 being zero because each additional number that you multiply makes the product smaller, and you can find a point at which they will go smaller than any chosen positive number. In the epsilon-delta concept of limits (you challenge me to show where the value becomes closer than an epsilon of your choice to the purported limit; I show you where that happens) this then suffices to show that the limit is 0.

For example, suppose we multiply 0.9 by itself an infinite number of times. If we want it to be smaller than epsilon, we have to multiply it ceil(log_0.9(epsilon))+1 times. For instance, if you want it to get smaller than 0.01, the formula shows you should multiply it 45 times (actually 44 times suffices; the +1 is just for the case where it equals epsilon exactly). Here 0.9⁴⁵=0.00872796356808771242 which is indeed smaller than 0.01.
I've personally met several of these workers who have created things that ended up being very helpful for their employers.

There's a reason why most of these companies have programs to encourage their workers to come up with these ideas and submit them to said company.
To stretch the limits of plausibility, there's always the Zanclean flood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood. That would make the flood myth a story handed down from our ancestors, the Australopithecus and/or Ardipithecus.

There's also the Black Sea deluge hypothesis, which would have been within civilization's memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
Simple "product", though the utility is strictly limited: http://www.ipaidthemost.com/

Pay more than the person before you and you get... to be the person that paid the most. That's it. Well, you get a message on the front page along with your name, but still.

People tend to react positively to it, though I can't for the life of me figure out how to market it. I've tried Reddit/Facebook ads, mentioning on relevant Subreddits and such, and nothing has really taken off. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.
You have left out the part about the vast distances we still need to cover. Accelerating mass could very well be cheap enough, but HOW fast we can accelerate to still matters.

Perhaps they're on the other side of the galaxy, or in a different galaxy altogether and the EmDrive will only ever reach top speeds near that of a Ford Pinto.
There are still incomprehensible numbers of stars, and awe-inspiring distances between them. Even if acceleration is cheap, there are only a few thousand stars that would have been reached by any human-produced signal yet -- and the chances of one of those containing intelligent life, the chances of those containing intelligent life that happens to detect our signal, the chances of those containing intelligent life that detects our signal and also has a space program, the chances of those containing intelligent life that detects our signal, has a space program, and decides to mount a voyage to Earth, the chances of those containing intelligent life that detects our signal, has a space program, decides to mount a voyage to Earth, and would have been able to get anywhere close by now...
How about opt-in first?
Not a proof.
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Phone molecule tracing reveals lifestyle
I'm seeing more websites (that are loaded with ads from different ad networks) posting older legitimate news stories, but as if they were new breaking news stories.

I worry that'll be harder to curb.
This is 100% true. I only get ads for Clinton, only see very liberal posts on Facebook, and receive a subset of news that is tailored to the fact that I live in New York.

It's kind of crazy, honestly. It's also sad - the brightest mind of an era, lying to me to increase Dwell Time.
Find other solo founders from forums like http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ and start a weekly mastermind
Thanks for putting it that way. I realize "equality" and "equivalence" gets confused a lot here. Equality is a special case of equivalence. It seems absurd to me to have more than one equality.
Same here! The weird thing is I didn't even receive my education in the US. I studied in India and we covered many world civilizations, including Iran to a certain degree. I guess this really is a forgotten wall.
Id agree, but add my own plea: please dont write an spa if you dont need one.

Yes I left that a bit ambiguous, but it is harder to manage and work witha rails and ember app than a reg'lear ol rails app. Thats cool if are genuinely getting something out of it. "Ember experiece" on your resume doesnt count.

Except that it does, bummed, but i do understand.
I believe that if the EmDrive produces real force its top speeds are, in a vacuum, only limited by relativity and the amount of energy it can carry.
Running within the same cloud provider makes sense, I hadn't thought of that.
The story reminds me of something my grandfather told me when I was young. He used to shave with a straight razor because, "a straight razor will last you forever, I've only had to change the blade once and the handle twice."

That might have been the first time I recognized identity as a construct, though it wasn't until much later that I began to think of "things", including people, as constantly changing.
100% agree. I loved his short stories (including the one this book depicts). This was my first foray into sci-fi (if you can call it that, strictly) and it was awesome.