skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is genius really.

This act will cause /r/The_Donald to leave reddit, saying they don't trust them anymore.

Those opposed to their antics will forgive /u/spez and stay.

The result is that reddit expels it's undesirable members without anything so controversial as banning them.
>Its in the link, isn't it?

So you think wiping out a subreddit community is reasonable because some members of that community do idiotic things? People from a subreddit as large as The_Donald aren't some homogenous group.
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They modified the algorithm to avoid the front page getting flooded by the_donald. Their posts still make it to the front page.
First there is barely any, what is happening there is military style intervention that same media would happily report if it was happening somewhere else.

And secondly, when it gets reported, it is heavily spinned with corporate interests in mind. Protesters are not crazy, unreasonable people. They've been justified with recent accidents that happened, which is exactly what they were warning about.
I don't like "first experience with Tech X" sort of videos because with AR and VR there is just so much going on that is new and novel to the user that there is no chance to stop and actually evaluate the technology on its merits.

I want a great AR system, but no such device exists. I've had a Hololens for about 3 months now, on loan from a client that asked me to build an app for them. If Hololens is at all any indication of the current state of the art (and Magic Leap is officially on its sixth year of childishly teasing "we got a secret and we ain't telling"), then this tech is easily 5 years away from being consumer ready. This is not even to the usability level of the Oculus DK1 yet. There are zero usable apps because there is zero way to usably interact with apps. The Hololens is an incredible feat of engineering. But I'll stick to VR for now. It's usable now and there are customers now.
Interesting, do you have a source for that?
Because it doesn't even pretend to serve the truth instead of a particular agenda. "We are the platform of the alt-right" are words Bannon has used, verbatim.

This bias is evident in even a cursory analysis of their headlines on any given day. They ran virtually no stories critical of Trump during the election, and mentioned every single salacious speculation about Clinton.

As far as I can tell, they are very nearly the definition of a partisan, biased news organization (i.e, propaganda).

And I'm going to go ahead and preempt your "but the MSM is worse!!" response. First of all, it's not. The stories it chooses to cover are demonstrably more diverse than those of Breitbart, and any bias is much more subtle.

But even if it did have the same sort of agenda, saying that "CNN is just as bad" doesn't in any way justify that kind of behavior from anyone else. We all need to be doing better. We can't buy into the epistemological relativism that allows us to say that fake news isn't an issue, no matter where it's coming from. Truth is real and truth matters.
When you have a name for over a decade, you tend to have it hard coded in a bunch of places...
Isn't the whole left brain vs right brain a myth?
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Wrecking the system: India's liquidity crisis
My three-year-old MBP lasts about an hour. I think it lasted like 6-8 hours at first.
I disagree with the idea that the problem has to do with "non-security minded programmers". Certainly they exist, but the issue more often than not is that security is more expensive than non-security, so companies don't give their developers enough time to actually do security.
I get why this is bad but the lack of perspective is kind of astonishing. I mean these insane idiots will not give up this stupid idea of some pedophile conspiracy they think they've uncovered. And they don't care whose name they shit on. But edit their internet posts and they scream bloody murder. They can lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and this is what will get talked about.

I'm very pessimistic about the future.
To bring this more in line with HackerNews usual content, what do you guys think the chances are that the voting machines will actually show a significant discrepancy from the paper receipts? Will this recount actually involve an audit of the voting machine software at all?

I have my doubts the outcome will be significantly changed, but I'd love it if the process involved an auditing of the voting machines, just from a curiosity standpoint...
OK Go really do make some amazing music videos. The Rube Goldberg machine [0] one is particularily impressive. It even got its own TED talk [1].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

1: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_sadowsky_engineers_a_viral_mu...
ever considered using a supported wifi usb?
No need to look further, NPR...
If the US government decided to attack its own citizens on American land, I'd expect they wouldn't be too worried about waging a humane war. So perhaps the more educational recent example here is Aleppo. The rebels haven't lost... But the cost is most definitely not heaviest on the Syrian government.

As for the Y2K/polio analogy... I'm not really following, to be honest. You make an extraordinary assertion ("guns prevent governments from waging war on their people") that's arguably provably false (Colombia should be example enough that an armed and organized force is hardly sufficient to prevent the government's continued attack---at best it ensures a split nation and years of warfare and strife). You present readings that show governments have waged war on an unarmed citizenry as proof that they won't wage war on an armed citizenry, but that's not proof---it's just not disproof. You can say that it's impossible to prove it (because it's a negative), but then all you can do is disprove it (which I'd say the world has already done).
This is more about which salaried employees are exempt, that is they don't get overtime. The theory is if you are pulling an oar then, you get overtime if you are hourly or yearly paid. If you are in charge of the ship then you don't have to get overtime.

The problem was the law set a fixed annual income as the test for exemption and this got eroded away by inflation. The Obama rule was an attempt to restore the original intent of the law.
Facebook, China, Fake News and the Slippery Slope of Censorship
you preload it the night before so it goes stale while you sleep, duh.
People talk about "getting their work done" as if an equal amount of work were doled out every day to each worker and getting it done were a "you eat what you kill" result of being highly productive. Is this work-assignment principle common? I could see why a manager might distribute work this way, but I've never seen it actually happen -- it has always been "oh great, you finished early today, you'll have twice as much work tomorrow."

The optimistic explanation is that I haven't found a good manager + workplace yet and I should keep looking. The pessimistic explanation is that "getting your work done" is a sign of success at the game of politics on one hand and masterful framing on the other, rather than a result of skillful software engineering.

I'm right out of school, I've only had one job, so I don't have a very good sample to make up my own mind from. I'd appreciate hearing opinions on the matter.
What is this data referenced in the article?

FTA: With your help, are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania-- three states where the data suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals," the page reads.
I wonder whether super-capacitors could be fabbed. At the end of the day it's just two large surfaces.
> "Schneier then laid out his argument for why the government should be a part of the solution"

Now we have two problems.
it might be reasonable to start with that assumption, but actually do tests to determine what's more dangerous. then put processes in place to clean the water from the dangerous stuff (from both humans and animals)
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NPR sussed out what looks to me like "FNaaS" (Fake News as a Service (tm))[1]. The company's called "Disinfomedia".

Does FNaaS constitute shouting fire in the crowded theatre that is FB?

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503...
What do you do when some group, like 4chan trolls, decide to go upvote garbage or downvote a legitimate journalist?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014435
No need. Simple digital signatures of comments (and of their parents) would go a long way here.
Is it funny that they're the ones who voted for Trump the most? Educated (post-highschool) white people.
I think that logic is stupid and don't think your comments re: moderation of YC companies on HN are honest.
My guess is because it was found in China.
Only if you make such a request. Read the GPL.
I can't believe this is a serious comment.

The majority of open source is crap, like 80% of it. People build what they need and forget about it. Often the code has no cohesion to the rest of the project and often it is of poor quality. Not to mention the ego's and lack of sociability of most projects.

Apple didn't become the most valuable company by following that principle. Instead it took the approach of an egotistical maniac who demanded perfection and required that all the pieces fit together as part of an elegant puzzle. No small feat and not really replicated today -- except for Tesla and SpaceX.

If I'm missing something, please name one other company today has has a "hit" product that unanimously loved (aka has insane sales and really high ratings) to the extent of the iPod, iPhone, Model S, etc..

Furthermore, I'd challenge you to name one open source project that can be shipped AS-IS as a product. Don't even say the Linux kernel, that has like what 2% market share?

No doubt the majority of HN folks are sharp but there is a huge lack of emotional intelligence. I've found this at many tech companies except Apple. Even when talking with Apple engineers I find myself talking to another HUMAN who happens to appreciate technology and understands it isn't the be all end all. Its sad to see such a company lose it soul but it was inevitable.

Disclaimer: I'm a kernel developer and contributor.
I'm starting to think that the best way to preserve free speech online is for the government to take active steps to promote it: either by nationalizing Twitter/Facebook, or establishing a public platform of its own.
The wiki gives a good overview: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum/wiki
I'm very interested to see how the public reacts to this unorthodox victim group.
Interesting concept, but what gives readers any authority to vote on the truthfulness of a story?
bias as long as it goes along my opinion and world view.. this is why it's dangerous.

seem more like an attempt to control what news are okayd vs not.

id rather fake news get lawsuits that have to prove it
(ex-reddit employee, employed during the changes) - we'd been designing changes to the algorithm to not be just a few top subreddits, and to instead show more variety well before r/the_donald even started; in fact, it was one of the first things Steve took on when he came back. There's no anti-r/the_donald conspiracy; there's much less discussion about them internally than they'd like to believe.
That's delightful.
Sorry the high voltage USB idea is no good: although 1.8A * 50V equals 18A * 5V in terms of power, 50V is no use to a 5V battery. You cant deliver power to a battery at a voltage higher than its charging voltage or it will burn.
A 90W transformer will not fit into a phone for the foreseeable future.
Exactly.

It's like having having some obscure one word titles on the front page for some company/software/hardware/whatever that I have never heard of and the link content does not make it much more clear either.
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> Bias I can put up with, so long as it is not supported by fabricated facts.

I am inclined to say the 'effect of fake news' on the election is a fabricated fact.

It's not like 4-chan and bad subreddits happened yesterday - they just needed some convenient strawman to attack after Hillary lost; I'm certainly no fan of trump but it's sad to see otherwise intelligent people gobbling this up..
You wouldn't use USB cables for that kind of current.

As for the power available from the charger, you'd probably want to build a LiPoly battery into the charger itself, and have the charger trickle-charge its internal battery and then dump-charge the phone's battery from the internal battery.
I see a lot of commenters bring up privacy viz. tracking transactions and tax avoidance. Now I'm all for respecting people's privacy; but I also don't see why the govt. shouldn't be able to detect and extract what is legally owed to them.

Raghuram Rajan, the ex-RBI governor was in favor of tracking transaction data too (and wasn't in favor of demonetization), especially since he felt that the tax rate in India is already reasonable compared to other Industrial nations. [1]

So instead of ending the discussion at "It invades people's privacy, full stop", can we talk about ways of ensuring greater chance of collecting taxes? Maybe examples of how other countries have successfully tackled it?

[1] http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2016/nov/10/the-cle...
I would suggest it be checked, but not expect to find anything depending on the model. It'd look for zeroed out blocks, blocks containing data from other blocks or blocks containing random data where there should be none because this is how I'd erase traces of malware myself. Also look for directories with suspicious deleted entries (because I almost forgot I'd need to rewrite those too to erase any fingerprints).
> The scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of Clinton performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners

Source: Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/hillary-clinton-chall...
I have been drafting an 'Ideas' post about the following idea, but it's not done yet and this looks like as good a place as any to look for some early feedback. This might not have as much clarity as I'd like.

The general idea is to have a site that can track various projects that release their own copy of GPL (especially, but other licenses as well) software. So Apple ships their version of {bash, etc.}, and so does your router, and someone else's refrigerator. And this site ("GPL Hub?") just links to all the places that are hosting their own version of {bash, etc.}. Maybe it could even show how they've diverged, although that might not be so easy.

Recently it has become very trendy to host all code in one centralized location like GitHub. But GitHub isn't really that great at showing you the "forks graph" anyway. Many companies that ship GPL code have archives like this available on their own websites. This could help increase visibility and give users an easier time finding the source code. I'd love to know how many copies of different GPL projects are out in the wild. Maybe for the companies that don't publicly host their GPL code, someone who makes a successful GPL request could share the code on this same site.

Those are some of the ideas, I'd still love to finish the post sometime but it's a bit too vague for me to say anything concrete yet. Any direction to related works or explanations of why this is a bad (or good) idea would be much appreciated!
Microsoft gave me one at the end of my internship.

It is ok. It feels really clunky when compared to a MacBook but overall I would give it a thumbs up. My biggest complaint is that it is really back-heavy, so it wants to fall over whenever I sit it on my lap. Also, the docking station has a lot of weird issues (e.g., it will just stop working sometimes if it goes to sleep until I unplug it from the wall).
What would it take to show the current internet generation that what they really want is usenet? It's impossible to alter a usenet post after it's been sent out. It's decentralized, uncensored, has no economic interests of a company to consider, and no worry of going away when the company calls it quits. It's everything your average redditor wants.
There is nothing counterintuitive or spontaneous about police culture being homogeneous and very different from the surrounding communities. A simple google search will dismiss this notification instantly. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=police%20culture...

Secondly you imply that police diversity somehow matches community diversity, when this is manifestly untrue, particularly in places where it is asserted that discrimination is active.

Take Ferguson Missouri, 67.4 percent of the city’s 21,000 residents are black, and 29.3 percent are white.

What is the makeup of the police department? 50 white officers, and 4 African American officers. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/17/...

The facts do not bear out your conjecture.
Grab the reddit enhancement suite, you can easily filter out any subreddits from r/all you don't like.
>One representative example of this argument, applied more generally, can be found in this lament about why Silicon Valley isn't solving the "big" problems. Assuming that this complaint is sincere, it nonetheless misses the point. What are "real" problems?

Well, I could name 10 real problems off of the top of my head, and most people would agree that they are important too. So I don't really understand the question. It seems to me to imply that people are unique snowflakes and because of that it's difficult to determine what's important, but that's not really the case.

>1. The clamoring for tech companies to solve social problems ignores the empirical record and empirically observed characteristics of top-down engineering efforts

Like this internet thing, on which the very article is posted on?

>Unfortunately, Manhattan Project-like ventures are not translatable to social and political problems.

Maybe, but then again there are tons of serious problems that are not "social and political" in nature, and are not "social video sharing for cat lovers" either.

And, yes, people might enjoy and derive some value from the latter too. But they'd derive a lot more value from, e.g. not dying from certain diseases due to a better focus on such problems, or sustainable energy.

What I think the people the author mentions ask for is not stopping Google and co from doing their stuff and conscripting SV engineers to basic research, but more and better funded and coordinated national (and international) efforts on stuff that matters in a large scale for our societies and our survival. Kind of like the internet was developed, we went to the moon, nuclear energy, and also applications of such stuff to current problems (from environment to health, education, democracy, privacy, etc).
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I believe the original article was here, but poorly substantiated: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-...

But Alex Halderman (the professor mentioned) posted a clarification, saying: "Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked. But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other. "
https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-wa...
Information can be a weapon, and all available avenues are going to be used to establish that fact.
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I must admit. I am stumped. I feel like I'm engaged in a debate to which I do not understand the rules.

I simply do not understand the motivation behind your arguments. I recognize that you are arguing, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why. You are talking about something that is clearly on the screen. There are 3 distinct blocks of books. They have a dollar value shown above them.

I would say that requires a bit of common sense, or perhaps hovering over the text "Pay what you want" and reading for a second. In fact, in order to get to the custom amount input box at the bottom of the screen, I count no less than 3 times you had to ignore the stipulation that the price was $1 for that tier of books.

Pay what you want is not a lie. It has a stipulation.
I didn't know that, thanks, and thanks for providing a product I can rely on!
Thanks, will look. Last I checked you could put a tracking pixel on the confirmation page that appeared after a purchase was made, but not in the intermediate checkout steps.

If this is possible it's another example of poor product marketing: I've asked for this feature multiple times via email and forums over the last 6 years, and I hear about it from HN? That's a broken experience for a customer who's paid them approaching 5 figures.
There in lies the fault line, if we do "regulate free speech" (that sounds chilling, but I'm keeping an open mind), who decides what is truth and falsehood? For things like climate change and evolutionary theory, these are well established agreed on facts in the scientific community, but for current events, who can be the arbiter of truth? Certain things are clear cut at least in time("protestors were bused in"), others, not so much ("reaganomics of the 1980's was a good thing").

I still feel like our best bet is still education and to instil a sense of intellectual curiosity in people.
And even then, only some manufacturers.
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From about 2005-2009 I founded a hotel reservation platform in direct competition to CTrip and ELong, both of whom were already Nasdaq listed with deep pockets. I successfully grew the business to the same network size as the competitors on a shoestring budget through automation, undercutting them on almost every property, and even offered services in six human languages (they almost managed 2). We received rave reviews from users, most of whom were local. The problem was, I didn't have the capital for a marketing budget, every advertising channel we tried had very low returns, and I was not confident enough to seek capital domestically. I still think there is loads of room for alternative booking platforms here in China, but the up-front capital costs to buy in to a large enough audience remain fairly significant.
Not really, it's pure hysteria.

Urine is generally sterile, it's actually an accepted first aid practice to urinate on a bandage or create a urine paste to treat a wound in the field in emergency conditions.
> Do you get the difference between internal and external representations? When you see (lambda (a) (+ a 1)), you don't know how the code is represented internally and how its value, when executed [emphasis mine], is represented internally

I'm not talking about representations of semantic objects. I'm talking about representations of syntax. In Lisp's case, you don't get to choose - the macro system critically depends on a particular representation (named variables). Have fun writing macros that operate on HOAS.
Sounds like a consensual hallucination.
That's very long. Maybe a TL;DR?
"Jill Stein is the friend who ruins your wedding but really shows up for you during the divorce."

https://twitter.com/morgan_murphy/status/801589703078187008
>Yet that's exactly what we're doing with coal and petroleum.

Only coal and petroleum is mined thousands of miles aways from me, and even if e.g. there's an oil spill, it won't kill thousands in hundreds miles radius.