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The Iraq war was preceded and enabled by a massive propaganda campaign where close to 100% of American outlets went along with the WMD claim and were for an invasion (FAIR.org).

You don't get to say a propaganda campaign that ruined a country and killed hundreds of thousands wasn't fake news. It was - complete and utter fabrication on an industrial scale, and it had devastating effects.
Part of it is just a shift in mentality. When we viewed education as a net benefit to society that society was willing to pay for, there was a natural downward pressure on the cost of education since the public was shouldering most of the burden to educate people. Once we shifted to the mindset where an education was valued based on how much extra money the recipient could make during his/her lifetime, that downward pressure went away and market forces took over. Suddenly it was acceptable to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education because that shift in mentality meant that people would pay that much.

The result is our current educational system, where costs have ballooned and administrative and facilities costs dwarf the spending on actual education. I wish I could remember where I read it, but there was an excellent article that traced beginning of our rapidly increasing education costs to the era when Reagan was governor of California and he pushed that shift in mindset. The whole system and all the problems we're experiencing suddenly make perfect sense when you view it from that perspective.

I'd personally like to see a hybrid approach. We should identify a core curriculum that leads to a well-educated populace. Things like statistics and formal logic that make it much harder to manipulate people the way that our current politicians and media do. It should be free to study that curriculum. Anything beyond that, including vocational training, could be market based and lenders should consider the likelihood of repayment when loaning money for tuition.
There are better ways of avoiding such penalties. For example, instead of avoiding the product, you could try not to scam GoogleFi.
While I'm sympathetic to most of your argument, it does beg the question, move where?
I visited Yiwu last year. It was fun looking around and seeing all of these item. But I imagined it to be lively, yet there were very few people shopping around in the area. I've asked the sellers why. They said it's because most of their clients buy their items online already but before there were a lot of people shopping at Yiwu.

Things to note:
For Christmas shoppers, they only sell wholesale (1000 pcs or more depending on the product, 100 pcs if the item is pricey). Most stalls wouldn't sell you anything if you will only buy a few items even if you try to explain you need it as a product sample.

Since it is wholesale, make sure you order it in advance as most of their products are located in different province in China. Some of them have to ship it to Yiwu first and they would advice that your orders will arrive 3-5 days.

If you are just travelling using the train and need to carry all your items, don't buy too much because you have to walk a very long path with very high stairs carrying all of those stuff (No elevator). And you only have 15 mins time to walk from train station to train platform.

Advice: Rent a car from Yiwu to Shanghai for example. It's not that expensive. They also have shipping companies to your country, so you can ship your items to your country. It looks risky because it's not UPS or DHL, but it did arrived at my place so their shipping is ok.

Almost all of the sellers don't know how to speak English. It's a must to have a translator.

Yiwu Hotel prices are very cheap and provides nice accommodation. I love the food in the area and it's cheap too! :)

For me, best and fastest way to travel to Yiwu: Shanghai then take train to Yiwu. :)

It was fun! :)
You could do it at least in Win7, maybe earlier, do not have anything older to test with. Click on icon (right click on top bar) --> properties --> layout. You can edit both window size and buffer size
I’m not saying you’re not right, I just think it’s ridiculous. I've met plenty of people with various degrees (BS, MS, Phd) who are stupid as a rock, and I’ve met plenty without a degree who are well rounded individuals / smart as hell / can get the job done. That’s even outside of tech. In the end it really comes down to the individual.

Also, as an ability metric it’s an outdated one, and personally I would never pass on an employee just because (s)he doesn’t have a degree. Having a degree doesn't even mean someone will make a good employee. Results are infinitely more important than credentials. Most people just can't get stuff done.
You have 8 x Stackable Chairs at 4sqm?
I work for Pivotal.

I understand why you could take that interpretation, but it's not the way the place works at all.

If I need to leave early, I leave early. If I need to come late, I come late. If I need to go out during the day, I go out during the day.

What I can't do during those hours is work.
You've taken that out of context.

Try over 2 million employees between active duty and civilian workforce in the US Department of Defense[1] alone for which the discussion at hand is very much applicable.

The devil is in the details. You'll lose your job not because you defaulted on a mortgage, but because you failed to maintain a valid security clearance, which is predicated on--amongst other factors--an ability to faithfully satisfy debts.

What you read was a mere snippet of one study which reported 24 contractors in 2009 who appealed. What it doesn't touch upon is how many contractors simply accepted without appeal, and completely omits federal employees altogether.

Furthermore, security clearance reinvestigations are a lagging indicator, generally running on 5-15 year cycles depending on clearance level[2]. If defaulting on a mortgage doesn't bite immediately, it inevitably will when reinvestigation rolls around.

[1] http://www.defense.gov/About-DoD

[2] http://www.dss.mil/psmo-i/indus_psmo-i_updates.html
I'm on Unity on Ubuntu 16.04. It's essentially just a way for me to launch a terminal (terminator) and an IDE. There is nothing in particular that I like or dislike as it just gets the simple job done for me.
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it is fake news, but its not faked by the newsorganizations, which is what they are trying to prevent.
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You seem to be confused about the difference between real/fake news vs correct/wrong news. The claims by the Bush administration about WMDs were real news. That the claims turned out false is another matter entirely.

Your problem is that you're interpreting it in terms of "is wrong/is right" instead of "deliberately lying/trying to be accurate". Perhaps news publications should've been more skeptical, but they themselves weren't trying to make things up.
The article is made suspect, in my view, by promoting this Credit Sesame thing. There's a service called http://annualcreditreport.com/ that provides access to credit reports from the three major agencies without trying to sell anything, or using any black-hat user experience design to trick people into signing up for services.
Deepstream 2.0 more than 1000x faster at scale than socket.io
Another Darwinite, I presume? "Fourtwennyone" is more than a contract, it's a cultural institution.
really? on hn?

Much to big also. Would be nice as buttons for hardware projects though. My midi-countroller could use some crystal-foggy-mountain-snow button.
I've personally met with quite a few AMD employees over the past few years (hell, they bought me quite a bit of alcohol at times :P). They are not trying to compete in the high performance desktop or server arena anymore, they view it as an area that they will never win big marketshare in.

That being said, any market they can compete with Intel and cause them to have less than 100% marketshare in while making money is a market they are in or want to be in if they aren't already.

Intel literally has a half decade of chips that they could release right now that perform better and are ready to be released, but won't be until years down the road due to a desire to remain top dog in the event they have another Pentium 4 happen.

Perhaps that Joint Venture will go as well as Intel Israel went (brought the Core series out, replacing the failed Pentium 4) which then replaced Intel Oregon, but that is an iffy bet. The Israelis are particularly good at critical thinking, whereas that is generally not encouraged in China. I might be wrong though, but 2 to 3 years from now when we see first silicon for their modified Zen, we'll know.
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Indeed we'll keep seeing the mass stream media biased to omit objective news.

Otherwise you would see the US population asking themselves why on earth are their armed forces so deep involved in Syria, just short of military invasion. They get spoon-fed that the country is ruled by a dictator and their population needs to be freed, but so is Saudi Arabia with a far worse regime where people get their heads cut on monthly basis, which are praised as critical ally in the region.

"Fake news" is a way to block the things deemed as dissident from the main stream, effectively blocking the room for logical argument and exposing the facts.
Reminds me last summer when I was working as a junior software developer in this rather small or medium sized IT company. We used our custom framework written in PHP, and the funny part was that the framework didn't have a single test. Everything had always done by testing manually and hoping for the best. Had I known this beforehand, I would have applied somewhere else.

Anyway, our customer was (and still is) one of the biggest wholesale in some part of the Europe. We had developed online store for them like ten years ago, and the project had become more or less a legacy project where everything was outdated and nothing ever worked. If the customer asked some changes or updates, they were always implemented without proper refactorization nor testing. So you can imagine, if everything is done like this for the past decade with this custom framework, the code base just becomes too complex to maintain, not to mention developing it any further.

So, I had worked in the company for about 3 months when I am given this project. The former developer had left huge changes unfinished without too much commenting nor even briefing me about them. Took me like 3 months to get myself familiarized with the project, finish up the changes and carry out the rest of the requests. The summer ended and everything seemed to work fine in the local as well as in the staging environment. It was Thursday morning I pushed the changes live and everything crashed. Quick rollback, some research, couple fixes and a new try. Same thing. New rollback, some research, some fixes and push. Still broken.

Took me about 10 hours with the help of 2 developers to find out what was wrong. The framework was fundamentally broken in one part, it somehow didn't include files correctly. Still to this date, we don't know why it worked both in local and staging environments but not in production. When I got this fixed, new problems arose: customers had lost products from their carts, logins didn't work, the site was slow... After banging two weeks my head to the wall, everything finally worked. I was so relieved.

These problems affected thousands of users throughout Europe, and I can imagine how pissed some customers might have been. I was so ashamed on behalf of our company, our "framework" and how things were done that I quickly left my resignation.

If I learnt something, discuss the tools and how things are done in the company before applying for the job.
I think there are many people who are interested in truth - whatever it is, without feeling the need to associate their position with any red/blue person (politician).

There was no mention of machine learning (no predictions of any kind) - the idea is to keep track of history of raw data (labelling and it's changes) and report on "reliability score ..." (how many times labelling itself was false).

The thing is it doesn't need to be biased at all. You just keep all data for all sources. There's no "objective truth" per se, there are only true/false labels according to source.

Of course you can create your own "beyond reasonable doubt by xyz" or "government xyz pov" source and assume that this is going to be your objective truth reference. But, just like any other sources, your source will just have reliability rating in context of any other source.
It's a poorly-worded sentence.

Each location starts at 9.06am local time.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
You may find https://try.gogs.io/ interesting, which is much less resource hungry, performs better and got only LFS support as of recent.
Can we stop with these creepy jokes every time serious topics are brought up? By being an escrow, you'd be willfully participating in blackmail, perpetuating the harm faced by these students, and you'd be another failure point since there's nothing holding you legally accountable. At best your joke is insensitive, and at worst it's ignorant of the harmful reality of the situation. I'm tired of this internet culture where people feel the need to insert a cheap joke at the expense of others for a small laugh. We get it, you're edgy, now try to have some empathy or human decency and refrain from typing the first puerile thought that comes to your head.
> buy a book!

True.

And, if you live in the US, patronize one of our great public libraries. If you're in New York or Boston, just walk in. If you're elsewhere you can borrow via interlibrary loan.
I don't understand the hate inherited wealth gets here sometimes. It is the only realistic way to improve your family's lot in life over the generations.
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"zero evidence" is completely wrong. here's the crowdstrike writeup about the dnc hacks and their reasoning for linking it to russian state hackers:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

there were also, iirc, at least six other private security companies that came to the same conclusion, who weren't hired by the dnc. additionally, every US intelligence agency backed up the claim.

again, not a proven statement, but there's a substantial amount of evidence we're aware of.

>First, they attempted to claim that emails have been tampered with and then when DKIM signatures proved that hypothesis wrong, they shifted their tactics.

do you have a source for the first part? afaik it was just twitter randos floating the idea

i'm not a partisan in this fight. i didn't vote, i despised both candidates, but i also think both sides can be a little blind in their eagerness to paint the other as disingenuous. i'm very interested in this subject and it's one i've followed closely, and i'm reasonably sure russian state actors were behind the dnc and podesta hacks, but i also think it's worth keeping an open mind as a general principle and not to be blinded by ideological alliances.
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They still haven't figured out our pattern of "if you keep me out of a meeting about my project that's the day I'm taking a hour lunch during your hour meeting". So either invite me to the meeting about my project or I'm taking lunch because if you think I'm going to pound away on a keyboard while you learn what to come back and tell me out of context then your wrong.
The article says that they require all your information. A loan shark isn't going to be stupid enough not to confirm the details or else they wouldn't be able to squeeze you later.
You presume correctly! :) All I know is that if I am in the city having meetings, I try and jump in the car and head the heck out by 4:20 in order to beat the "public service exodus traffic jam"...
I work for Pivotal.

It's not really an imposition.

Many engineers like flexible hours and prefer to work for companies who like that.

Since we pair full time, it's not practical to have flexible start or finish times.

If anything, the "imposition" is committing to pair programming. Many folk don't like it, or don't like the idea of it, and never apply.
The consumer finance "reform" act of 2005 made it very difficult to discharge student debt in bankruptcy. It's time to undo that reform.

It had a disastrous unintended consequence, by completely shifting the risk of an uncollectable loan away from the lender and onto the borrower. How so?

When a lender carries risk, they underwrite those loans. That means they study them before making them. They pay attention to all kinds of things, including the borrower's ability to pay and the value of the thing being bought with the borrowed money. Underwriters are (usually) knowledgeable about the field they work in. They understand the value of both vocational and liberal education. Some of them even understand the value of giving under-served people a chance.

So, when a school gets calls from underwriters saying "we're having a hard time justifying loans of US$100K to your students taking bachelor's degrees" the school takes notice. They restrain growth in tuition and fees. Maybe they even offer discounts, also known as "scholarships." Those calls, coming from skilled underwriters, are far more effective than student demonstrations against tuition increases.

The 2005 reform made it possible for the lenders to be much lazier. Their underwriting is much more sloppy. The reform freed up a lot of tuition money that the educational institutions were happy to soak up. And their students are stuck with the bill for a lifetime.

I'm aware of the libertarian view which emphasizes individual responsibility, and I have a lot of sympathy for it. I have a young friend who looked at the cost of her first-choice college (Syracuse, it was) a few years back, and wrote them a letter saying "sorry, you're too expensive. I regret that I must decline your offer of admission." That too puts downward pressure on educational costs. But she's rare: she has great presence of mind and forward-thinking parents. Plus, she listened to me. -:)

Most high-school seniors get caught up in the mostly fake competitive admissions system. They aren't in a position to behave like hard-nosed underwriters.

So, let's put some of the loan risk back on the lenders, and bring back the underwriters.

This situation is analogous to the mortgage crisis, which shifted the risk of bad loans away from the mortgage originators. In that case the risk got shifted onto anonymous buyers of securitized mortgages, and onto AIG. In the case of educational loans the risk gets shifted onto the poor schlemiel who wants to be a schoolteacher.
> I am not sure I would interpret this observation as spheres that are getting more spikey. Maybe what gets more spikey is the actual box, so the sphere has it easier to touch or even extend outside of it.

I think that this is not correct. In n dimensions, the cross section of a unit n-cube near the edge is a unit (n - 1)-cube, just as your intuition tells you. However, the cross section of a unit n-sphere near its intersection with the unit n-cube is a tiny, tiny (n - 1)-sphere (the radius of a cross section at height z = 1 − 𝜀 goes to 0 as n goes to ∞); this is the 'spikiness' that the author is discussing.
We tried. Oh we tried. But the mobile apps being not native made the mobile usage drop like a rock compared to Slack, leading to the fact that it was harder to reach people than via the old Slack. When I saw that Rocket.Chat also used non-native clients leading to similar complaints, we just dropped the whole project and moved back to Slack.
I've been caught out by this before. This could be resolved by allowing city/country/IP range level whitelisting of login locations ahead of travel, or by providing a list of temporary download tokens for later authentication from unusual locations.

And no, I'm not giving you my number.
I agree that there is a difference, but "deliberately lying" isn't it in this case.

The politicians involved knew that their claims were not backed up by facts.
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Should a tool trying to fight fake news make any distinctions?
I work for Pivotal. The koolaid is unexpectedly delicious.

I've never worked for an employer that cared more about me as an individual.
No, they supported a narrative that was false by refusing to investigating claims by officials - that's planted fake news, and that news was created at publication. News don't exist if it isn't published, that is its definition.

Officials supplied the false information which served as the raw material the media's fake news was produced with.
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I don't think FB should be required to do this (I don't think they are but who knows what people will demand) nor do I think that Google should be forced to filter these stories out of their search results etc.
Ultimately the responsibility for judging news lies with the consumer of the news.
It may very well be in the interest of FB/Google to apply a filter to serve the users the best possible results...but that's a potentially dangerous path.

I wonder how viable it would be to provide these filters as a service (seems like large scale machine learning). There might even be a market for a "confirmation filter" where I can elect to filter out everything that is conservative/liberal if I so choose (since I hear a lot of people claiming media is biased in favour of the other side anyway).
Spam filter 2.0 (or is it 4.0 theses days?)
Give Thanks for Good UX
I still have the one book of his I haven't read on the shelf, unopened...
Alright. Can you dispute them though?

> Increased competition for desirable placements is the classic limited supply high demand scenario.

I would suggest that if you believe the issue facing the US higher education system is a limited supply of places, you may not understand the US higher education system. In fact, if you look globally you'll find that the countries with low tuition are the ones who ruthlessly control the number of places.

In the US in particular you'll note that we went from around 45% of high school grads enrolling in college in 1970, to 70% enrolling in 2010, even as tuition climbed far faster than inflation. If 70% of all high school grads represents a "limited supply", what do you think the demand is?

(The number of places at elite schools is limited. It's actually not hard to explain why Harvard is expensive; the question is why everywhere else is too.)

> patronage

That was my point; I took skwosh to be arguing against a system where the wealthy purchased art/science/journalism for their own ends; my point is that this is the system we've always had: Private individuals (and latterly, corporations) being patrons of the arts, publishing newspapers, and funding scientific investigation. I believe skwosh was suggesting we move to a system where society as a whole should fund such things via taxation; I was pointing out that we've never had that.
This will break badly if you have whitespace in your environment variable names or values:

export $(envconsul -once -config="/envconsul-config.hcl" env | xargs)

What they really should do is add an "--as-exports" option that outputs lines of properly escaped "export FOO=<value>" lines. That output could then be processed in a script via:

envconsul --as-exports | source /dev/stdin
That probably only makes sense for people with low budget. If you really need performance, not only "in some benchmarks" then there is no alternative to Intel.
Interesting, imho Java makes no guarantees about FP portability if you don't enforce it with the strictfp keyword, you'd get 80bit on x87 and 64bit on other architectures.

Why would this cause failing tests though? Does that mean they relied on extended precision?