skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You (and I) probably have the photic sneeze reflex. Maybe a third of people have it. Its cause is not perfectly understood, but maybe relates to sensory information from the nose and the eyes traveling along some of the same nerves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
The only thing about fake news that is surprising is that the attention it's receiving now only started growing very recently. I am confused so as to why there's a surge of discussion regarding the topic.

Is it the election results that made it worth discussing and addressing?
Unbundled from reality. Tied to profit.

It's an environment where they can rapidly iterate on what the most "click-worthy" stories are and dial in the content to meet audience expectations.

This is worse than the pure sugar being fed by useless news organizations like CNN where their coverage has almost zero informational value. This is like heroin where it's actively feeding wild misconceptions.
The NYT broke the story on Clinton's email scandal, and followed it continuously, long past other media outlets and to the point where it was getting criticized because the vast majority of its coverage of Clinton was dedicated to a single scandal to the exclusion of much other newsworthy reporting it could have done.

Your failure to use the right search terms is not evidence of media bias.
Just curious - how did the automated trash collection work?
> Do you know any recent work or paper for speech recognition in language teaching area?

What you're describing is called "speech verification". Language education is an application I'm personally very interested in, and one that almost no one discusses in the speech community (I assume because of machine translation), so if you find any research papers please let me know! I wrote a little about it: http://breandan.net/2014/02/09/the-end-of-illiteracy/

The task is actually much simpler than STT. You display some text on the screen, wait for an audio sample, then check the model's confidence that the sample matches the text. If the confidence is lower than some threshold, then you play the correct pronunciation through the speaker. The trick is doing this rapidly, so a fast local recognizer is key. I've got a little prototype on Android, and it's pretty neat for learning new words. I'd like to get it working for reading recitation, but that's a lot of work.
Are you sure about microeconomics? AFAIK, only recently have economists started to use behavioral economics (psychology & game theory) to logically explain empirical behaviours that were previously thought of as irrational. It doesn't really seem to be a solved problem.
Tabloids, for all their problems, are not as bad as fake news. They do have standards, they're just low, and are willing to go on hearsay sometimes. Yet most of what they publish is verifiable, if spun.

Fake news is outright fabricated.
I deleted my FB account years ago and haven't regretted it.

Its true though that I have less (fake) friends now.
Like Weekly World News? The line between that and tabloid news was razor thin, if there was one at all.

They usually make up shit about celebrities and see what sticks, then beat that drum until people tire of it.
I'm a little worried about the industry and workers that would be affected by such a huge change. I don't know what could be done, especially in the name of progress, but it's something that needs to be considered.
Some. Not full coverage ever. Partially depends on the language. Statically typed languages come with many free tests called type checking.
I don't know if it were the results per se, but that likely hasn't helped. The level of discourse of the campaigns, coupled with the increased use of social media by both populations and the campaigns increased the exposure of click-bait and webspam and such, increasing its exposure.
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At $340 I think this spherical camera is too cheap to be doing what you're looking for but I'm not sure:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B014US3FQI/
> Censorship by private corporations and government is not the answer.

You yourself complain about lack of reporting about an issue, lack of truth, and then you go on to celebrate the spreading of lies? Fake news are basically just lies so opposing them is to spread truths, and to call efforts to spread truth "censorship" is 1984 logic.

Also, as I'm sure others will point out, FB and google already arbitrarily restrict content on their platforms so there is nothing "unprecedented" about it. There really isn't much of a case that filtering fake news is different banning from Simpsons clips or music remixes.
This is not the same as resolving the Great Depression. The goal is to create jobs that do work that is not getting done; not creating faux-jobs to feed people.
Yeah, it definitely seemed like it was too complicated of a process to be able to be anyone near as simple as recharging or refueling is.
Because they provided food, historically.
This probably already is a huge violation of many safety regulations in Thailand.
The number one issue here is that news organizations have been gutted over the last twenty years due to a variety of factors.

CNN under Ted Turner used to have a world-class news team, they'd check sources, they'd investigate the veracity of any claims, they'd get boots on the ground to do their own research. They wouldn't hesitate to get actual experts on the air, people with qualifications relevant to the situation at hand.

They also had the luxury of being able to dig into a story before "breaking" it, there was time to get everything lined up. Now we're in an unrelenting hurricane where something pops up on Twitter and literally five minutes later CNN is parroting it as if it's news.

There's no budget for fact checking. There's no time. There's no buffer against the stream of half-truths, propaganda, and pure bullshit pouring out of this thing we call the internet.

There used to be a substantial difference between The Washington Post and Weekly World News. Today that gap has shrunk to the point where pseudo-news stories end up being published without adequate fact checking and retractions come way too late, if they ever do at all.

CNN's coverage of the first Gulf War was respectable, they had people in Baghdad observing the situation on the ground. Even their September 11 coverage was pretty good, though they were working on their home turf. By the time complex geopolitical struggles like the insurgency in Iraq or the constantly shifting nature of ISIS emerged they had no ability whatsoever to present a coherent story.

Now I wouldn't trust CNN to report on something as numerically simple as the election. They have "experts" on the air that are so obviously political shills it's ridiculous: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/14/video-cnn-has-trump-...

It's almost as if people don't care for actual news any more. They're tired of eating their vegetables.
People has discovered you can make ridiculous claims and if your webpage looks half-way legit most people will believe it. The average reader of news is incredibly stupid.
"Two men are walking in the woods. They come across a bear, which starts moving towards them to attack. The first man starts tying his shoes, getting ready to run. The second man asks him, "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear." And the first man says, "I don't need to outrun the bear. I just need to outrun you."

The same is true of the GC. The GC doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than you. And statistically, you suck at what the GC does.

Aka how to sail safely Without a Paddle. ;) Like the analogy and use of statistical argument.
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but neoliberalism is good and without any drawbacks. the unhaltered gallop of technology will have no bad consequences whatsoever.
In the spectrum of evaluating the quality of documention, I never would have thought that fontface would be the first mention.
"...if you crucify a few thousand men, women and children every day for the smallest offence, resistance breaks fast."

You would know this, how? Look at the butchery in Syria and tell me how people respond to genocidal despots.
Ethics does not exist in reality. At the end of the day, you try to live a better life.

Facebook sells ads and to live longer, it needs to sell more ad. Invention is a growing vertically, which is very difficult and if you stop, you die.
Expansion is growing horizontally, which is easy. You live longer, if you spread quickly.
All the CNN porn stories' sources trace back to one single tweet by one user on Twitter. That's the only original source we have on the CNN porn thing ever happening.

According to these articles, there was porn on CNN over large parts of the east coast, for 30 minutes. 30 minutes of porn on CNN in significant parts of the US, on Thanksgiving evening, and only one person noticed it and decided to post anything about it online? That smells very suspicious.
Anyone guess what they will spend the cash on?

Couple plausible options

- they aren't profitable but have huge transaction volume
- international growth
- new product development

Thoughts?
Tabloids don't give everybody a voice and a place to vent frustration and constant outrage (liberals I'm looking at you). I am 100% confident we were better off watching the evening news with Walter Cronkite. At least American's respected Walter and the news was the news, not personal outrage or even worse intentionally false information.
"clinton email scandal" != "dnc corruption"

Also, your last sentence would be apropos had we been given GP's search terms and you rebutted with a set of terms that did indeed give the desired results.
The trouble with all that is that we don't think about an alternative to "corporation extract the maximum economic value they can" (a.k.a profit).

One hope is that with sufficient automation and competition, the marginal cost on providing a diagnostic or other services might fall to close enough to 0 to be free. The value provided to society would be very high. The profits might be astronomical?

I agree that UBI or something like it is a necessity, but I'd rather live in a Star Trek "all needs provided for without currency exchange or social stigma" society rather than 5 trillionnaire families and 9 billions peoples surviving/mooching on UBI.

Increased automation has a high chance to be very expensive, in the "printer cartridge" kind of way. Cheap "robot". Expensive maintenance and consumables.

I wish you're right, and that corporations will not go full "Bacigalupi" and patent everything from the plant we are allowed to grow to the brand of electrons we're allowed to put in our robots.
I might consider a Tesla, but for the logistics of using one. I live in a western Chicago suburb and commute to a northern suburb. Despite the many commuting routes I take, I have never seen a charging station. I cannot charge at work, nor can I charge at home (I park in a garage in a apartment building that has no EV charging abilities or even 120v outlets available).
My question then is if we actually passed the critical mass of fake news that only now warrants all these blog posts and mainstream media discourse.
Wow. The DNC corruption scandal began in summer of 2016 and involves Debbie Wasserman Schultz being removed from her position as DNC chair over the evident corruption with, "how to deal with Bernie Sanders" popularity (the DNC should be neutral actor).

Clinton's use of a private email server began in spring 2015.

They are related, but hardly not even the same thing.

Thanks for that comment about using the right search terms. I'll try to use "the right search terms" next time. /s
> and economies might change because people stop consuming

How an economy heavily based on excessive consumption is a good thing?
The reason it's undemocratic by design, is that they wanted the electoral college to be able to stop bad choices from the people. There is admittedly a petition going to convince the electoral college to actually do that, but I'm doubtful it's going to happen. It seems just undemocratic without any kind of upside.
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Navigating between files was so comfortable that I started reading lots of code than before. We can literally see the increase in productivity.
Call me out if I'm reaching here, but I think if people just used Facebook to figure out what the hell their 3rd cousin's phone number is, Facebook would totally collapse. I don't think that use case has to go away in order to kill what Facebook has become or what it threatens to become.
Why is transferring to a bank immediately beneficial?

I've read of stories of people getting burnt by getting significant amounts of money frozen that they had left in their merchant PayPal accounts (without transferring it to a bank) for inane reasons. Not holding on to the money eliminates that worry and builds trust, doesn't it?
Forget the millennium, just in my lifetime I have seen:

1. Computers go from room-sized devices that only major institutions could afford to being disposable commodities. Today I can buy a machine that can run Linux for less than the cost of one hour of labor at the minimum wage. That in and of itself is staggering.

2. The internet. When I was a kid, to get information you had to go to the library, or have an encyclopedia in your house, or wait for the daily newspaper (which was actually made of paper) to be delivered. Today I have direct real-time access to most significant world events (with video!) and Wikipedia wherever I have a cell connection. And it's all free!

3. ATM machines. When I was a kid, my parents had to go to the bank and wait in line to withdraw cash to get through the weekend. When I was in college, if you wanted to travel abroad, you carried cash or traveller's checks. If you ran out, you were hosed.

4. Genome sequencing, self-driving cars, and chess-playing computers that can beat human grand masters go from a pipe dream to a consumer product.

5. GPS. Well into my adulthood, if you wanted to figure out where you were, you had to cross-reference your surroundings to a paper map. It was actually possible to get lost. Today my cell phone tells me my location accurately enough that I can tell which room of my house I am in.

I could probably go on.

(Not all the changes have been good. When I was a kid, my friends and I regularly walked to school and otherwise roamed the neighborhood without adult supervision. Nowadays, parents get arrested for letting their kids do that. :-(
I get the abstract argument against censorship, but I think the 'fake news' in these discussions is fairly clearly defined as news that's made up from nothing (and isn't opinion). There is some element of "I know it when I see it," but I think it's possible to be fairly objective. I'm sure Facebook et cetera won't want to be accused of censoring something that turns out to be a real news story.

Moreover, my understanding is that Google and Facebook already censor what consumers see based on what their data suggests they will like (or what will generate greater ad views/clicks/whatever).

It seems to me that the real problem isn't that aggregators may "censor" news, it's the suggestion that there's nothing to be done about it. Surely consumers can just read the NY Times or whatever sources they trust instead of relying solely on social media. The problem might be apathy or lack of free time or lack of critical thinking, but I don't think it's Facebook and Google trying to stop fake news from spreading on their networks.
And these people can vote and have children... Shudder.
I'm assuming by "cross-border" that you mean across currencies. You really expect a company to do foreign exchange for free?
> We are a republic and not a democracy.

This is such an awful argument. North Korea is a republic and not a democracy. China is a republic and not a democracy. Denmark is a monarchy and a democracy. Why would you want your country to be an undemocratic republic when you could be a democratic republic?
Keep in mind that chronic anxiety is often the flip side of other, highly positive traits -- like empathy; the capacity to be deeply committed to others and one's goals; and self-knowledge, generally -- which many seemingly "relaxed, self-assured" people sorely lack.
I find it funny how globalism is leaking back into the US in unexpected ways; who would have thought twenty years ago that a Georgian citizen would take flak for derailing a US election by producing pulp news? It was always supposed to be the American eagle spreading its freedom to the world who gratefully welcomed it with praise, they weren't actually supposed to influence the US back!
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hey, I'm not from YC nor am I rich, but we have recently founded a startup (www.spring.care) developing tools that help depressed patients identify the best antidepressant for them. I'd love to do something similar for Anxiety, or help you do it yourself. feel free to reach out to us through the website
> Did the original WaveNet text to speech demo come with a paper or source code?

Paper, yes. [1] Source code, no.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf
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I wonder how many of them have managed to actually sell into this market.
Thanks. I don't see anything supporting the theory that he worked for Iran before the 2003 US invasion started.

It's also known that the people who worked with G. W. Bush planned the war in Iraq even before 2001 and that W. asked for some link from Saddam to 9/11 to be produced. Then even lacking it, the link was "suggested" to the public. The politicians and media accepted that narrative.

Now claiming "it was all Iran" just doesn't fit.
Ohh, my...

I wonder how many people buying there know the mineral oil and the brake disk dust trains release are highly carcinogenic given that food is placed directly under the train.

When I was a kid I used trains for making arrowheads from coins(using train wheels as presses) and oil residues are everywhere.
> The space following the "#" is meant to signify that the preprocessor directive is nested one layer deep.

Ohhh! I really like that idea. I may adopt that, though I tend to avoid most preprocessor usage so I have little opportunity to try it out.
Twitter moved a lot of their codebase from RoR to Scala a few years back.
You just described 23andme.com.
It's funny how whenever the topic of machine learning comes up Amazon is mentioned as a world class leader. However, their search is quite poor as many have mentioned. It still seems like "search" is a technically hard problem to get right.
While I like the sentiment, and have seen my trust of Amazon and reviews at Amazon plummet in recent years, I suspect this will just push the practice underground. Unscrupulous vendors will continue to utilize their network of "reviewers", but will no longer instruct them to include a disclaimer about the reviewers being given free products in exchange for (almost always positive) reviews.
The truly sad part about your last thing is that the change isn't based on reality. If anything, it's probably much safer to roam the streets alone, partially due to all those technologies you mentioned (and others).
Nobody actually watches CNN.
The name is exactly the thing that distinguishes monarchies from republics. Modern monarchies are democracies, as are modern republics, though some monarchies and many republics in the world are still undemocratic.

Well, I would hope the move is towards more democracy, but it seems people everywhere are eager to vote against democratic freedoms these days.
It looks like the 'real news' is going to go down with the ship because the only response they have to discretization of there reporting is to double down on there false narrative.

I stopped reading mainstream media and watching TV many years ago because I consider 80% of what they report to be misleading, misinformation and yes 'fake news'.

The corporate media has finally lost the ability to control the public discourse. That was the only real value they still had to the handful of oligarchs that own them.

Nazi Frogs, Russian hackers, Fake news factories and what ever else they come up with next is not going to save them.
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God forbid those proles vote, or -- horror of horrors -- have one of the most fulfilling human experiences! They should all be disenfranchised and sterilized.
In my opinion the media totally screwed up their analysis of the Trump phenomenon and they're grasping at anything that would explain it without having to do too much self-reflection. And this stuff mostly seems to be leading up to some kind of push for censorship of news outlets and more centralization, which is something where it seems like the cure is worse than the disease.
It isn't an appropriate way to commit this either way.
Did you mean "git add --patch"?
The issue is that my country, Tunisia, doesn't allow local banks to make foreign purchases. In other words, if you have a Tunisian credit card, you are not able to buy anything online. The primary cause of this is that the currency is strictly controlled, but I believe that the government is trying to work on relaxing these restrictions over time. So that removes the possibility of using Stripe/Braintree/etc. as an intermediary for processing payments.

Because of this, the only way to setup a payment processor in Tunisia is to do it the old-fashioned way. I guess my only course of action is to talk with a number of local banks and see if they'd be willing to back a local payment processor.
I think the words you are looking for are Double Speak when you refer to "1984 logic." Anyways, the fact that there will be people who might say something stupid is not reason to further restrict the right to free speech.

You can actually use that as a litmus test for free speech: There will always be stupid, awful, and racist people, and if they don't exist you know they lost their right to free speech.

I'd rather be free from tyranny than have a few bad apples--either way we're going to have the bad apples anyways.

It is actually unprecedented. Clips from the Simpsons being banned may have been banned on broadcast TV, but it does not mean someone could not upload that clip to Youtube (you do get the point, don't go into some strawman argument about copyright laws).
I also had my employer purchase a license. I switched to Atom for a bit, but promptly returned to Sublime
You can also cut back, and it should help. Delete Facebook from your phone and only log in using a dedicated Chrome profile on a single desktop machine (or alternately, a browser you rarely use). Use some other way of communicating with close friends. You'll find you can go for days without checking it.

There are lots of people who check Facebook only occasionally. If everyone does this then it's basically like LinkedIn, not a core part of your life.

I've done this for years. Currently I'm doing the opposite because I wanted to see what that's like.
It could be controlled by an organization like the United Nations or even under control of the UN itself.

If Facebook were a separate intergovernmental organization then, similar to the UN, it could draft a general charter while each member state would control regional provisions. Facebook could remain a publicly traded entity, except shareholders would have limited power.

Another advantage is that it wouldn't need to be nationalized by any one country and whether the CEO/Secretary-General was an American or rotated like the UN wouldn't matter much because their power would also be limited.
I think you've tired of me but I want to finish with one last thought: "Choose your battles wisely" - this might not be the best place to make our last stand. There's a danger of tiring out potential allies before the point things really matter.