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There is literally abundant fake news, primarily distributed through Facebook. Actual lies. [0] Whether Breitbart is abjectly white nationalist is more debatable, likely by design.

[0] In the practitioners' own words: 1) https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became... 2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11... 3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-j... 4) http://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/ending-fed-trump-facebook.h...
It's reporting on sources. Opinionated, yes. False? Maybe. But let's remember all the decades when the MSM were peddling stories how e.g. salt is bad, saturated fat is bad, etc. (now, we're starting to see stories about the reverse).
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First off, most Americans live in city's, but rural voters would still be just as valuable as anyone else. So, the real change is removing extra power from people who only got it from accidents of history. Not necessarily a bad thing.

Second, having rotating senate elections, many votes requiring more than 50% to pass, and lifetime appointments to the supreme court are all designed to hold back a pure majority.

PS: I would suggest national proportional representation to the house, and instant runoff elections for the senate and president, with senate boundary chosen by a fixed public algorithm.
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me too, since just after post. Commented it here, but no replies.
Hear hear.

And they refuse to allow any access through their paywall for folks with AdBlockers, even for Google referrals.

I don't think we should be sending them any traffic at all.
The issue is if you're translating from a language that doesn't explicitly encode that information into a language that requires it; you need some way of filling in the blanks. This is all well and great when that information can be inferred from the explicit context provided; the real problem is that with translation there are a non-trivial number of cases that require the translator to consider the pragmatic context of what's being translated to figure out a correct/good translation (e.g. who's speaking/writing, who are they addressing, what is the overall societal context of content, what might be the purpose of the content, etc.). For a lot of these problems it's entirely reasonable to get a computer to fill in the blanks for 90%+ of cases, but the last few percent of cases require AI that is equivalent to that of a human.
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Censoring? What law is being passed here? People are free to choose with whom they do business with, if people decide they don't want to do business with white nationalists, that's their choice, and more power to them.
What I don't understand is when Gore lost even though he obtained the popular vote, why didn't the Dems from that day on push for the change? Now they're crying[0] again and it's just stupid. This is possible because of the way our election system works. Don't like it? Change it!

[0] Don't misunderstand, I'm not a Trump fan. Nor was I an HRC fan.
That's a lot of text + code for a rather trivial task.
If people complain about the other way, it's just because they're used to things doing it wrong. When you're dragging something, the thing you're dragging stays under your mouse. Here you're clicking and dragging on the scene, so the scene should stay under your mouse, but it doesn't. It flies in the opposite direction.
Geocities is owned by Yahoo. Unless Kyle worked there, there is no relation.
Do you mean when Chief Justice Roberts read it incorrectly, and then Obama decided to graciously _follow his incorrect lead_ instead of saying something different?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=roberts+obama+oath
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Read this some where on some other forum, is this true?

> So yesterday someone found out that you can get any account banned if reports reach ~1000.

Is this somehow related?
I was asking about fake news specifically on Breitbart. I know they exist online, even on "reputable" news sites like CNN (so probably Breitbart as well), but to claim Breitbart is infested with fake news is patently absurd.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021747 and marked it off-topic.
But is this really the direction we, as a society, want to move in?

Isn't is exactly the direction we want society to move in? What could be more free and fair than allowing anybody to publish their views, and allowing the public/advertisers to decide who receives their money?
Breitbart itself describes itself very clearly as a champion for the neo-nazis that have re-branded themselves as "alt-right". Much of the news they provide is clearly misleading.

I wouldn't necessarily go so far as saying Breitbart produces fake news, however there are sites that produce fake news. Completely made up stuff targeting conservatives to make money. This is a very real problem and it needs to be solved.
"Ben-Peretz said the company vets clients and always respects local laws, but the governments are primarily responsible."

Just following orders and the local laws...
I got this Arduino bot for $70. Has its own battery for sufficient power. The motor gearing is a bit fast, so it's better to use PWM to slow down the motors, except the default pinout disables PWM on the drive gpios when the servo is enabled. The build quality is ok, except there are no spacers for the bolts between the PCBs and acrylic base, so I worry about damaging the PCB during assembly.

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That's because tyranny of the minority is typically not a major concern for democratic systems... Except in the United States, because it happens so damn frequently. In no other country does the opinion of ~2% of the population (Swing voters in swing states) take precedence over everything else.

Your response completely ignores, for example, the rural California vote. Those people don't live in dense cities, but their opinions are completely ignored, because they don't live in the right state.

Alternatively, why not double down on avoiding tyranny of the majority? Make a native American's vote count as ten white votes, make an African American's vote count as three white votes... The justification for it is about as good as making a Wisconsin farmer's vote count for that of three California farmers.
One can mount a perfectly sensible economic defence of big bonuses paid to workers at banks that lose massive amounts of money and require state support, and one can also argue that the public should be smart enough to understand such payments and not let them stick in its collective craw. But they’re going to stick; that’s how people work. And that effect on macroinstitutions, whatever they are, ought to be considered in some way.
A private company is refusing to do business with a particular publishing entity. How is that censorship? How am I advocating we just shut them down? I said I don't see it as frightening that a private advertising company would do such a thing, nor do I find it frightening that other publishing entities would attempt to call out Breitbart on their yellow journalism, and I'm not afraid to condemn Breitbart for their spectacularly immoral publications.

There is also a significantly small number of people that most likely use Buzzfeed as their primary news source, especially in relation to politics. So I'm not sure why you're attempting to draw a comparison there.
Ah, I'm holding it wrong. :P
I use FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. I like macOS, I want to use it, but not under a facist rule of the one holy way.

It is a tool and should not push policy through arbitrary limitations. But it seems we are caught in a war of lock-in ecosystem providers. Kind of a more realistic version of the much used picture of corporation-states or societies in sci-fi.

Apart from this, hypothetically I might not only an end-user but also an admin who has to implement certain policies. The argument is never sound, there is always an economic or practical tradeoff and you are stuck somewhere and have to make it work and yours.
64 lowercase English letters is 10^92 bits of entropy, which is around the same number of atoms in the universe. Eventually the laws of physics put an upper bound on how much entropy you need to avoid brute force attacks.
Then I am glad to see Scheme still circulates amongst the younglings. Carry bravely forward the spirit of (the chip [0] of) '79 - we shall have our year of the Lisp-1 desktop yet!

[0] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
Similarly, I set up two OVH Public Cloud 2GB instances $3.49 (4.49 CAD) with CloudFlare in front. Having two lets me set up master-master MySQL for Ghost and other play projects.
I have seen content from Breitbart, it's objectionable and dangerous propaganda IMO.

I support their right to publish it, I don't support the idea of forcing people to do business with them.
Anyone could build an app like this with Shopify's apis. We used https://developers.shopify.com/sales-channel-sdk.
How about using Celery and sending tasks to it? A customer of mine has a Django application which is little more that a web interface over a bunch of long running Celery tasks and it works pretty well.

No status updates over websockets, but it could be added pretty easily.
Just check what the W3C says about writing a raw >:

> For characters such as > where XML defines a built-in entity but does not require its use in all circumstances, it is implementation-dependent whether the character is escaped.

(https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization-31/#serphase...)
This is like saying there is growing opposition to the World Series, because sometimes the team that scores the most runs over the course of the series ends up losing.

Well, guess what - no team is trying to maximize their total run count. They are trying to hit 4 wins. Everything from day 1 would be conducted differently if each candidate was trying to maximize total vote count.
I'm not at all worried about "fake" news becoming such a problem that it substantially distorts the public's perception of reality. That might have been an issue 100 years ago when information traveled slowly, but with the speed of communication and the ease of fact checking today any blatantly false news is pretty quickly snuffed out (and the reporter's reputation so damaged that they quickly become irrelevant).

Much more of a threat is a MSM (which is highly coordinated and have a mutual interest in maintaining their control) branding independent sources as "fake"
I don't know. There are lots of really great things being made with Three.js. If you couldn't get it to work, it says more about your lack of experience with Three.js than it does about the unsuitability of Three.js.
> is this really the direction we ... want to move in?

It's been like this since at least the 18th century. People/organisations should absolutely have the right of association and I'm glad that they exercise it.

> Do we want people's careers destroyed

I'm not sure what you're referring to. I definitely have no particular issue about a news organisation going to the wall if it can't find readership or funding. If you mean people losing their jobs due to it then that's personally unfortunate but doesn't strike me as a societal problem necessarily.

If you mean someone being persecuted by the state or a powerful actor because they have a moderate view that is disagreed with then, yes, that's a very bad thing. Not sure it applies here though.
> Even if you don't agree with Breitbart or other outlets, it's frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.

I have a hard time believing you personally take the stories in the National Enquirer seriously or have never heard of yellow journalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism) which, along with the jargon "MSM," strongly makes me suspect that you are a neo-Nazi (calling the alt-right what it is) troll.
Huh? At the time, most polls showed Clinton winning. How is it yellow journalism, or fake, for the press to accurately report what the polls indicate? Heck, for much of that time Trump's own internal polls and research said that Clinton was winning.

There's a big difference between reporting something that turns out to be wrong either due to later developments or mistakes in the research, and reporting things you know at the time are not correct but are reporting just to push your position.
I am not certain your argument holds for the system being considered here: it is important to mention that local energy conservation in a lab in flat non-expanding spacetime is very much a thing. And flat non-expanding spacetime is where this experiment is being done. Sure, if you are talking about cosmology and GR then some new effects appear, but is it reasonable to talk about those here - I doubt that the sensitivity of the equipment warrants talking about those.
my respect for the project grew immensely (because it showed me that they really cared and it was not another "me too because I can and I have my own way of doing things" project).
It's possible that it actually has worked, and things would be even worse without.
In addition, Milo, one of Breitbart's most famous journalists, is Jewish by ethnicity, gay, and self-reportedly loves "black dudes".
Personally I would love to know which stories you consider to be 'provably fake and completely contrived'. I have personally been the victim of multiple racial attacks both verbal and physical throughout my life. As a consequence I have v. low tolerance for racism, toward any race, and am thoroughly convinced we are all fundamentally equal in ability. And yet I am also fine with Breitbart's stance of wanting to eliminate the racial hypocrisy of political correctness for minorities only. As the OP I would love to know what articles in particular offend you. I'm just curious.
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Many years ago I used to play a lot of D&D. I found that there were generally four types of players: social players, creative players, analytic players and competitive players.

The social players liked to hang out and socialize. The creative players took their role playing very seriously. The analytic players would focus on tactics and strategy and solving puzzles. All three of these player types could work together well.

But, when a competitive player joined, things would often become tense.

The tension had little to do with the competitive aspect. In fact, all of the other player types would sometimes dabble in competition. The issue was that the competitive players usually broke the intent of the game or scenario. They would focus on the contract of the game (the rules) and seek out loopholes or ways to bend the rules to create superior advantage. These players were pejoratively called min-maxers or game lawyers. Basically, they were playing a different game than the rest.

I often find that these archetypes fit in real life. Most people get along fine. They understand the social rules and the basic laws. They understand the intent of things rather than the wording of the contracts. They understand that contracts aren't perfect and that there is a lot of room for personal judgement.

But, some people take the rules as an optimization problem. They seek to use them to both maximize their position as well as to justify their behavior. And, the rest of the people are constantly trying to keep up - trying to expand laws, regulations and social rules so that their actions are constrained. It's like a never ending arms race.

Unfortunately, these are the people who now rule the world. But, it causes ripples where we all now have to assume those behaviors to keep up. The orginal intent of the game has been lost, and now the rules are the game.
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Here's a detailed hypothesis by a team out of Finland: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/6/6/10.106...
Only one side is using that term though. Its a brilliant piece of propaganda but that is it.
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For that matter, it originated among Hillary supporters in '08.
Django is great for fast prototyping if you need very dynamic pages (because views written in Python are so powerful), a complex site structure (because it has excellent url routing), and lots of database interaction (because of the ORM). If you only need the first two, I recommend Flask instead.

But be careful if you intend to create a stable, heavily-used site. I have so many problems with Django in this use case that I've gotten tired of listing them each time it comes up and collected them into a blogpost: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html#django-is-terrible
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This seems oddly worded:

"With Frenzy, there’s no limit to your sales volume, the number of products you can sell, or the bandwidth you need." [emphasis added]
So the ABC poll having her up by 12 points a week prior, then dropping to 3 points, that doesn't meet your seemingly stringent criteria for fake news?
>My suspicion is that the people trying to muzzle Breitbart have never read it extensively.

You would be astoundingly wrong. I get the pleasure of reading Breitbart articles every single morning, thanks to my Facebook feed.
Chrome's XSS filter can still be circumvented in quite a few instances. The easiest way I've seen is when the attacker controls at least two variables and can split the XSS across them in such a way that neither half appears malicious but when loaded into the page they create a malicious script.

Example:
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The value of a is <script>void(' and the value of b is ');alert('XSS')</script>.
Of course Breitbart claims that. Go to a prison and you'll see all the inmates claiming innocence. If this is the best argument you can up with I'd advice to not bring it up at all.
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If you are learning Django is best. First, it will show you the basic way of structuring your app. If you use something like Flask while learning, you'll just mash everything together in some disorganized fashion. Flask is great for the experienced folk who know what they want, and want nothing else.

Second, Django is batteries included, meaning it does a lot for you, allowing you to progress fast. You won't get bogged down in the weeds. You can dig deeper on specific parts after you have more experience.

Third, there is so much learning material with Django. "Tango with Django" is my favorite. If you are learning, you need learning material.
As far as I know Breitbart has been misleading but not outright made-up. For example: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/breitbart-trump-rally-... (I know TPM is a liberal site but that's not an opinion piece, just a recounting of what happened)
Mostly this: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-ClientCerts.html

Also it's because a phisical thing you lose easier than forgot a password (new/crashed/different computer, another browser, etc, etc)
Except in this case, rural CA voters ultimately got what they wanted, since they on average supported Trump over Hillary.

Also, if we went to a national popular vote, would their concerns be more likely to be heard? Or would the candidates just rally at LA/SD and SF/SV?
Using an acronym for the mainstream media makes me a Nazi. Got it.
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It used to be fine when I was 100% remote ;). These days the kids are a bit older and I like to be home earlier to be able to hang out with them in the afternevening.
Please don't post snarky, unsubstantive comments to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020206 and marked it off-topic.
> Consider Buzzfeed, who is slowly turning their reputation around.

I'm not necessarily sure that's true.
It's interesting attending something like this how much you develop skills in area's you don't expect. The best analogy I can use is as a guitarist, I learnt so much more about how to play from being in a band, than simply practising and only playing parts of tracks at home on my own. The same was so true of my experience attending Meteor in Flip Flops last year, where there was a real mix of abilities, but the fascinating experience was working in teams hacking out stuff you might never normally work on. Any suggestions for 1 day React Hackathon use cases?!
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Sounds like an Apple advertisment.
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You had me until I had to use pedo twitter or Fakebook. No thanks.
I have a PC in my basement on a nice 150meg fiber connection. I have a dynamic DNS service and client set up, and ports forwarded. At this point, I can do whatever the hell I want (static or dynamic), as long as I don't transfer like 10TB a month.

I have Payara (java app server) running my blog down there, and HTTPS courtesy of Let's Encrypt. I looked into running a Open Street Maps server, but it was fairly hard (I might have been close to getting it running), and professional reasons for maybe playing around with it changed.
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Hi, I find your comment problematic for two reasons. 1) If you replaced "women" with "men" in that title, I'm sure you'd have no problem with it. In fact, no doubt you'd probably gleefully Facebook it to all your tweet snapchatters on Instagram. and 2) Milo is a homosexual. You speak from a position of straight white male privilege and as such you are in no position to judge his journalistic skills or even question if it should be considered journalism at all. It sounds like what you really want is to only classify "journalism" as "stuff written by privileged straight white athiestic males and females with a liberal bent".
Right...undecided in courts, but my (naive) reading of it would mean that you have to be a citizen from the moment you leave the birth canal. It doesn't seem like it should matter where exactly you were born...if your American parents were vacationing in Bermuda for 1 week when you were born prematurely, that means you can't run for president 35+ years later?
The Honorable New York Times said Saddam had Chemical Weapons, and was a party for enabling a Trillion dollar war. I think they should be definitely be labeled "fake news".

I am not fan of Breitbart, but when Reason magazine is labeled "fake news", this is not a crusade for truth, but to stamp out opposition "Stalin style".
To be clear, are you talking about institutions as the article defines them?

Institutions are organisations or patterns of behaviour built by societies to help solve social or economic problems which the law or private markets cannot fully address.

If I'm on the right track, an example of institutional legitimacy might be, "Banks can be trusted to hold your money" (vs stuffing it under your mattress), and FDIC insurance might be an example of an action to support or create that legitimacy.

Banks, at least as depositories for money, seem worth having...
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My employer is deploying client certs to company-managed devices (transparently via config management) and requiring them to hit company internal tools precisely to thwart this behavior.