skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying you should shrug it off - I'm saying you should't have your life ruined over a mistake in some code you wrote.

I'm yet to see a building collapse around me in my city - I see software fail all the time though - I think we are better at building tall buildings than we are building software.
What are you using to measure the water quality?
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already submitted here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000430
and here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999981
Other than it was stated that he lives quite far from work.
I can see the intention, but it had the exact opposite effect for me. My eyes were drawn to these images like some blinking ad banner, and I got annoyed about how it draws my attention away from the content.
I agree with something Ben Thompson said on his podcast Exponent — fake news is a problem intimated tied to Facebook as a platform and the filter bubbles that most people create for themselves. This material functions less as news, per se, and more as performative identity affirmation.
Sort of, yes. Neither one of them are actually PART of the federal government. They are separate, independent organizations whose largest (and probably exclusive) customer is the United States government. NASA for example doesn't actually rollup to any cabinet position.

As opposed to the Department of Energy or Department of Education for example.
>Mining works. It has validated blockchain technology and allowed it to be commercialized.

Well, it works at small scale, hasn't been validated at large scale yet. The entire Bitcoin community is undergoing a schism right now over a disagreement related to mining.
I haven't used it it, but the new (like, really new) Iron Functions may be what you're looking for. I've only used the Workers/Cache so far, but they're dockerized so pretty much language agnostic.

I'm making an assumption that Functions is similar.
I love the FaiF podcast for this:

http://faif.us/
read Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying. He lays out the bigger manipulation of the media. False blog posts get picked up by slightly bigger media sites. Then larger sites like Huffington post pick the story up. There is no validation of these stories.
I agree with you. But since enraged_camel said

> In contrast, the examples you gave are situations in which the person does have some manner of control, no matter how small.

I thought it could be interesting to ask for clarification of what needs to be accepted according to that guideline.
http://faif.us/
Sure, but I'm not sure why that applies to the many other Es (ChemE, MaterialE, MechE, ...), or why it would just focus on what is done with respect to civ-E (given the other Es, just because it was second oldest?), or do they include other Es as well?
And this one already has 15x as many points, so deal with it.
No it isn't, its undergoing a schism related to protocol.

The mining part has worked fine.
>running in circles and enjoying the patterns of your own thoughts

Sounds pretty attractive to me
The major problem seems to have been that neither party had or has an effective answer to the systemic de-employment (i.e. substituting lower paying jobs) which affects manufacturing hubs post-free trade agreements.

The economist argument has always been (a) sign free trade deal, (b) some jobs lost as labor reallocates to cheaper locations, (c) prices for goods decrease enough that everyone is better off.

Based on the result from the Rust Belt (and the split, not just the winner), I'd say they felt neither party did enough about (b).
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I'm so excited for this technology!

I threw together a really poor Donald Trump text to speech web app written in Rust [1], but had no idea he'd win. Now I'm interested in learning much more academic means of concatenative synthesis, or even the new Neural Network based approaches such as Google's WaveNet [2].

I've already bought and read large parts of Taylor's Text to Speech Synthesis [3], but I'd be interested in review papers on concatenative synthesis (normalizing and smoothing!), methods of building and automatically curating a large database of n-phones, methods of changing pitch and intonation, annotating text with intonation cues, neural network techniques for speech, etc. Does anybody have knowledge of good sources?

[1] http://jungle.horse

[2] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

[3] Cambridge, 978-0521899277
Intelligence agencies would be interested in this but they probably have something like it already.

Specifically this is relevant for ZRTP protocol. There is a voice-based verification step which relies on knowing and recognizing the other party's voice and then verifying a short authentication string they see on their screen. Being able to mimic can lead to ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

To counter-act the strategy is to use dictionary words instead of just numbers for verification, say "pink salad elephant" instead of "1934" so then parties would maybe have a joke or say something referring to the ridiculous word combination combination. That would be harder to mimic.
As they say in The Matrix: "you might be just another -- more advanced -- form of control".

I find it somewhat amusing how WikiLeaks releases things widely only when a certain topic becomes relevant and gets public attention. And then it chooses to keep silent on other topics but still vocally declares they have info on them. Fishy as hell for me.

It seems they are aiming for popularity and relevance at this point; and not to make any real change in the world.

I refuse to accept there is a "nuclear-level-of-unstable-and-dangerous" information. Just release it all on several big torrent trackers and move on. What'll happen exactly? A world war? We're past that point, several times now, ever since the 1960s up until today. It didn't happen even in the Cuba crisis, I don't think it'll happen over the racist slurs of a popular politician (one random example).

I fear WikiLeaks have been compromised long ago. Did we all forget that Julian Assange was questioned in private for a long time?

Everybody can be either bought or threatened to submission. Everybody.
Hadn't heard of this! Thanks for the link. I wonder what their business model is like. It looks like they've been around for at least 3 years, so that's a positive sign that they're doing something right.
We have had Photoshop for decades, and Audio tools for decades. This really isn't news... there is nothing really new here other than Adobe is building audio manipulation tools.
About 17 years ago I saw a short piece on the old Headline News featuring a professor who had developed something like this. They played a recording of Whoopi Goldberg saying something made up. I never heard about it since and assumed it was sucked into some black program.
> reactionless thrust drives produce the same acceleration regardless of speed

A) Where is that in the paper? Or am I missing something elementary to this?

B) We don't even know if it produces the same level of thrust as speed increases. If it produces the same level of thrust across all speeds, then we have a problem, because as velocity increases, so does mass, and the same level of thrust would produce less acceleration over time, because of the increase in mass. Of course, that may only effect things at relativistic speeds.
A little Barebones PC (Intel NUC) used as a sync server, connected to a 9TB NAS (Thecus N4310 with 4X 3TB HDDs in RAID 5).
I do not like the apps included in the NAS, that's why I use the NUC (with Linux) as the "brain" of the backup process, which is done by calling rsync through various cron jobs.

The NUC and the NAS are on their own subnet (with a router dedicated to them) and not accessible from the external network, however the NUC can access a shared folder on my PC which is where it takes the data from (and then it saves it to the NAS).

I do have online, cloud-based backup for less sensitive data, so I can access that while on the move. I use the cloud Drive offer from Mailbox.org (I also use Mailbox.org for mail/calendar/notes/address book).

Lately I'm thinking of replacing the online part with my own cloud server though. Probably I could run something like mail-in-a-box and NextCloud/OwnCloud on my own online VMs. But I'm too lazy and, at least for now, I trust Mailbox.org.
I listen to podcasts I enjoy, not necessarily educational ones. I find that relaxing.

We shouldn't underestimate the subconscious stress driving causes. Even in low traffic driving uses a lot of energy.
I don't really understand the concern. Digital media has always been edited and manipulated. I was actually surprised to see so much news about it - professional video/audio productions edit speech all the times. I'm sure with a lot of dedication any amateur can already collect enough unique sounds and and snippets from prominent people to fake sentences. It's just easier now.
Just get a used 6P. They tend to be cheaper.
Programmers are discussing unethical and illegal things they’ve been asked to do
The benefit of the subsidy is Walmart because they can pay less.

Having a job and being stuck on charity is not the system working as designed. A system working as designed wouldn't need charity at all, and certainly would be needed for those that are working and are still indigent.

I really find it odd that you think paying more would be "taking from the poor to give to the poor". Walmart and the Walton family are extremely profitable and wealthy. They can easily absorb the the cost with negligible real impact. They could even start by not paying a stock dividend.

The question isn't about some teenager. It's about the person that isn't. It's about the person working two or three jobs. You can't say that Walmart benefits the poor when they famously pay just enough to shop only there.

I suggest you get out of your bubble, because the people I know that work at Walmart, Dollar General (do you even know that store?) are heads of households. These people are screwed. Not just by Walmart but by the entire economy.
> Dr Eddy Borges Rey - a lecturer in media and technology at the University of Stirling - was horrified by the development.

> "It seems that Adobe's programmers were swept along with the excitement of creating something as innovative as a voice manipulator, and ignored the ethical dilemmas brought up by its potential misuse," he told the BBC.

> "Inadvertently, in its quest to create software to manipulate digital media, Adobe has [already] drastically changed the way we engage with evidential material such as photographs.

> "This makes it hard for lawyers, journalists, and other professionals who use digital media as evidence.

I find this /reaction/ horrifying - Adobe isn't invalidating evidence so much as they are making the public infinitely more aware (as a sibling commenter points out) that evidence may already be compromised.

If Adobe doesn't do this, actors who care enough to forge evidence surely will, so better that the public trust in voice evidence collapse than people mistakenly continue to believe in it. :@
They never specified US government or US tax dollars. Merely that government and tax dollars funds science projects. You're reading into and attacking something that isn't there, then ended it on a smug and rude note.

>Calm down. The technology is from the 1990s. It's in the article:

The article states that instrument design began in the late 90's - not that that is what eventually made it into the satellites after two decades. They knew these satellites were approaching EOL and needed to be replaced so began R&D is how I read it.

>And regarding taxpayer dollars: do you know how long it takes for governmend-funded projects to complete? DECADES because the process is so slow precisely due to government red tape.

These are also often projects that would never be privately funded because there isn't necessarily a return on investment. They do, however, perform a public service. Maybe I'm naive - but I don't think weather satellites are a very good investment if one is looking for profit. Though I do admit I don't know how much one can make selling the data it produces.
An anonymous blog entry titled 「保育園落ちた日本死ね」"Couldn't get slot for my child in nursery school, Japan should drop dead." got discussed in the Japanese parliament. The opposition party picked it up.

I wish political discussions were more evidence based, but I don't know how to do it.
> it's not the result of a conspiracy to oppress minorities

Sorry, there is a strong argument that the "model minority" myth was, quite literally, a conspiracy to oppress minorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority#Possible_causes...

http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Success%20Story,%20Japanese%2...

You can read the article that coined the term: http://inside.sfuhs.org/dept/history/US_History_reader/Chapt... It is quite clearly being skeptical of efforts to help, quote, "problem minorities," because Japanese-Americans did just fine in the author's opinion.

You can argue that no such conspiracy exists, but there's too much evidence in favor of it to be able to realistically dismiss it out of hand.
"Fake News" is a Orwellian double-speak for alternative news.

Mainstream media lost its grip on propaganda and now they're trying to push for censorship of opposing views (this past election is the proof of that). Read this interview with the founder of Snopes for the background of this [0].

Never mind the fact that "real news" organizations have been caught lying so many times and have collaborated, behind the closed doors, with Hillary's campaign, for example. [1]

And they're also grouping WikiLeaks under the "fake news" category as well. I guess that's the punishment for exposing how corrupt the mainstream media really is.

[0] https://backchannel.com/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not...

[1] http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/meet-leftist-prof-who-wrote-hit-l...
Well, much more trading business is done online now, coupled with a general slow down in the Chinese economy/world trade:

http://www.voanews.com/a/wholesale-capital-of-the-world-grap...
This is literally the plot of Sneakers, the 1992 hacking movie. I would hope voice signature systems are beyond "Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me."
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I love mine. As a piece of furniture which gets used 6-10 hours per day, I didn't mind spending a significant amount for something nice.

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On a mid-2014 Macbook Pro, I'm having a hard time right-clicking without selecting the text using the touchpad. I think its automatic. How are you doing it?
Flag your Facebook account for permanent deletion and then go on a two week vacation without your computer or phone. By the time you get back, you'll be over the hump of needing a social media hit, and your list of Facebook friends will be gone, which is a good barrier to re-entry. Same for Twitter. Getting rid of Reddit, HN, etc might be harder, but if your habits haven't changed after two weeks, you could also set up a hosts file to block problem sites before your vacation.
I wonder how many of the Ex. Nokia employees joined the HMD (The JV between Nokia and Foxconn) which would be making the new android powered smartphones. Btw, India was the last market in which Nokia had a decent grip before eventually loosing to Samsung & Micromax. Nokia still sells it's feature phones here & if it could make it's android phones affordable , then it has a good chance of making a come back at-least in India.
> The megacorps are hoarding all the world's top technical talent.

I don't think that's true. The scale they operate on doesn't allow them to have good hiring processes, good management, etc., they can only get top talent by acquiring some other small company.
The article is specifically about an event which was a mistake. Perhaps they are making a larger statement about alternative media by posting that, but that wasn't the point of the article.
Read the papers. He is arguing that they are using the same definition without doing so, thus removing his credibility.
Americans apparently don't learn how to think in their many years of compulsory schooling. They can apparently be shown pictures of unmarked buses and be told to believe anything you want. I really don't know how you combat that. How can you try to show these people the truth when they don't have the capacity to discern fact from fiction?
Said the newspaper spreading cheap pro-Hillary propaganda the entire election cycle.
The amount of attention that fake news are receiving from traditional media _AFTER_ the elections is astonishing... almost as if they wanted to blame fake news for the results of the election and the failure of their own forecast

Why were they not so active about this phenomenon during elections? I doubt they were unaware of it since even I saw many tweets that were obviously fake
As a contractor - I had insurance to cover me up to a million pounds.

As a full time employee, the liability falls on my employer.
I think there's a distinction. Facebook/Google/etc are built on top of the Internet, which is an open platform.

These companies we're talking about are basically trying to "become the Internet" (not something that builds on top of the Internet)
What gives you the ability to make a prediction on the 10,000-year scale? That seems wildly inappropriate. 10,000 years ago, you'd be the person saying "We should bury our magic artifacts in a big tomb in the desert! Nobody will find out what is inside for 10,000 years, because nobody can live in the desert and the sand is too hard to travel across..."

Any you'd be completely wrong about that. Because 10,000 years is far too long for some off-the-cuff calculation to draw reliable conclusions from. It's not even clear you could put this stuff safely on the moon once you start throwing around 10,000-year timescales.
Why does a filterable list need a loading splash and 10 seconds to load? D:
> they can't fully defund it as it is mission critical for the military industrial machine

The U.S. military lacks critical funds at this point due to defunding, depending on how you define "critical". The service chiefs testified that they will not be able to defend the country unless they get more money.

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/09/four-service-chiefs-say-t...
Maybe instead of reading that WND crap you instead try reading the article you're commenting on?
What makes you think it existed? I dont buy this assumption that military is 10+ years head on everything. They just dont have the budget, nor can they sequester everything of interest companies produce. Think Apple spends $10bn on R&D yearly and they've been averaging one distinctly new product every ~7 years + refinements. And while I dont doubt the military have some amazing/terrifying tech hidden it seems unrealistic is off to assume the military has that much commercial goods developed ahead of the private sector.
As long as the thoughts are helpful, that can be attractive for a short period. Often, they're not. Easy to get caught up in, and, even if they're positive, there is a big wide world out there that we have to engage in on some level, if only to satisfy our basic needs.

Edit to add: Just noticed one of your other comments, on paying attention to driving :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002601
Yeah, I went the NAS route and now I think I should have built my own server instead, like you did. I ended up adding an Intel NUC (with Linux Debian) which does all the work and the NAS is used for storage only. The NAS runs an extremely stripped-down version of Linux which was not flexible enough for my needs.
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Something that can help people ferret out false news stories in addition to what has been discussed is to follow-up on stories or at least to be open to follow-ups. It is definitely as difficult as being critical of your own biases, as has been suggested here before, but this is at least one other step we can take to be less swayed by information which can seemingly confirm our biases.
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Hah not where I live. You must live in a fancy part of Australia. I saw more cleaner toilets in the backwaters of China than here. At least when I did see them haha

IMO disrespect to public spaces arises from apathy (India/China are good examples), social tensions and abstractions (government taxes/responsibility).

While I don't think racial homogeneity is apart of it, cultural compatibility absolutely is. It's mostly co-incidence that differing racial groups carry differing culture baggage. As any race can adopt kinder cultural values and principals.
I don't know if you're a native speaker or not but for non-natives I think English Grammar In Use is great for initial study and then reference later. It covers almost all patterns that are actually used in English without getting stuck on old forms or giving overly strict rules that people don't actually follow.
You're entirely correct that today'd global economy is one of the many imperfections of the system I alluded to in my original post.

It's mostly easy to constrain for civil works, once again. You design a bridge in a given province, you have to be licensed in that province (state, country, what have you).

It's much harder, say, for an automotive engineer, who works in Canada, using designs from German engineers for cars sold in the US and manufactured in Mexico.
> How does a union take away fair compensation

Fair compensation is the result of many actors all competing in a market without restriction. This is often bad, as when competition is fierce, those many actors will drive down value to almost nothing, leaving low pay, willingness to do dangerous acts, etc.

The union improves on fair compensation by setting terms that the people must follow. No longer fair, but a much better situation for employees.

> room for negotiation

You can always try it out for yourself. Find a unionized job, sell yourself to the bosses, and then clinch it with a sweetheart offer of $10/hr less than everyone else is being paid. See how far you get and report back to us. Something tells me you'll soon realize that your negotiating room is gone. And that's a good thing!
NYT = fake_news(newspaper)
> I really don't know how you can get any more fair than that? Everyone equally has the ability to decide what works for them and are free to move on when it doesn't work.

I would argue that this is where the lack of fairness stems from. In every rural small town I've visited, Walmart is effectively a monopoly.

They're backed by a capital-intensive and incredibly efficient logistics network, and they've leveraged that to put local competition out of business. Consequently, they're the only employer in their industry in that town.

Sure, you could get a job doing something else (if the town has a 'something else'), but that still means there are going to be a large number of jobs controlled by Walmart without competition. And that distorts the local labor market via the disparity in power.
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