skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the original fake tweet author's response to this is pretty revealing. He essentially retracts his tweet, while reserving the right to repost it again, and to post such false things in the future. Let's read his own word:

"While there’s no such thing as absolute certainty, I now believe that the busses that I photographed on Wednesday, November 9, were for the Tableau Conference 2016 and had no relation to the ongoing protests against President Elect Trump."

In other words, he is saying in that first sentence that he doesn't rule out that his original interpretation will eventually be proven correct. There's no such thing as an absolute certainty, after all! It remains possible that the 2016 Tableau conference and its 13000+ attendees were all an elaborate ruse to cover up an astroturf protest. We can't rule anything out prematurely! But he _currently_ believes that this might not be the case, in agreement with the overwhelming evidence. Currently.

"I don’t know that Donald Trump was talking about me (posted 24 hours after my post), but he’s among many with doubts"

Many people doubt this fact, in the face of overwhelming evidence, because people like Eric Tucker, Donald Trump and his campaign apparatus have spent the last year priming the public to believe crazy things that aren't true.

"Let’s not be afraid to say things when we aren’t completely sure"

Well actually yeah, let's just be afraid to do that.

"I value our ability to discuss with each other in a civil and respectful tone regardless of where our views may stand."

Except for that part where he gets up on Twitter and makes stuff up about people with whom he disagrees, and posts those made-up things as facts, he is totally 100% down with respect. Very respectful. None more respectful.

For reference the original tweet was "Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem. Here are the busses they came in. #fakeprotests #trump2016 #austin pic.twitter.com/VxhP7t6OUI"
Locally: QNAP NAS which accepts Time Machine backups from Apple computers. The NAS also runs a Linux container with SpiderOak on it for any NAS-only data and critical time machine backups. Endpoints also have SpiderOak.
It's funny how the next big idea for the news media to get on board with starts at the New York Times and then filters it's way down the food chain through the less influential newspapers, CNN, and other mainstream news outlets, etc. It's sad that nobody is coming up with their own material much any more among the big networks. The agenda is set and it's all just a bunch or mstaphorical retweets.

It's like there's some board somewhere that comes up with the next big thing we are going to try and sell to the American people on and they publish it in the NYT and then the whole mainstream dutifully jumps on board and it gets pushed and pushed by all the networks until they give up or they move onto something else.

Searching news archives, one could build a nice directed timeline of the genesis and bloom through the media of these regular campaigns.
> I feel there needs to necessarily be a separation of the doing of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics in these kinds of matters. In the teaching of mathematics, especially in the more 'abstract' areas, there is not nearly enough driving of intuition, and the 'problems' students are given often are unrelated to the 'problems' the theory they are learning about was created to solve. Pushing things in the concrete direction is probably the right direction for pedagogy.

Indeed. By far the best teachers I've had for math courses spent a good deal of time discussing the history of the topic and motivating its creation.
The Neo900 project posted two days ago that they would like peer review for their prototype #2.

http://neo900.org/news/2016-week-47

This link was apparently posted to HN two days ago when
it was published but with the boring title
"Neo900 2016 Week 47". I think there is probably someone
on HN interested in looking over it, so I posted it to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002613
with a better title hoping someone who should see it sees it,
though the time of day might be bad and even though
I tried to use a better title it might still be too
vague to attract any attention. I looked over the
schematics myself but I don't have any input for the
Neo900 guys, being just a second year EE student
(also, though I'm interested in electronics and
microelectronics I'm still going to go the path
of the power subdisipline as has been my plan
since before I started).
The Cathedral and the Bazaar on the Hardware Development at Shenzhen
First off this is terrifying. Additionally I was realizing the other day I thought of another reason fake news might resonate so quickly with people that doesn't get brought up as much (not that I think I've had a novel idea of course, it probably isn't true or has been brought up and I haven't seen it): fake news has little nuance.

Its part of what I think makes conspiracy theories so attractive, they give the impression that no matter what else is going on, someone is in control and things happen for a reason. I think the alternative that nobody is in control at all is even more scary for some people (maybe all people).

I don't think it is entirely that fake news fits into your own viewpoint already, I have some "friends" on facebook that sometimes share fake-right news that aren't even really right wing, they are just kind of gullible (I hate to say that but they also fell for the fake wireless-charger video going around. Luckily that one was a little easier to debunk). The fake news would be so simple and digestible, without any nuance or subtlety that it might subconsciously be immediately favored over a more nuanced story. I don't dispute any of the other analyses going around but I think the simplicity of fake news can't be ignored and we need to remind our friends and family that the world is complex and very few stories are so straightforward.
The point of the article is to discourage 'non-approved' news sources because they must all be fake like this bus thing was. Its propaganda to try and keep the NYT relevant despite their lies and deception such as promoting the war in Iraq.
I think that your terminology "3-sphere" (which is standard) as synonymous with "4-dimensional sphere" (which is not) may be confusing. Of course the 3-sphere is 3-dimensional, hence the name; it is just that it is canonically embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space (and not in 3-dimensional, flat Euclidean space).
> With proof of stake, nothing is preventing you from 'mining' on multiple base blocks on the same time. Anytime you spend a coin and get the goods, you might as well try and see if you can 'mine' 2 new blocks to erase your transaction.

Ethereum's proof-of-stake approach appears to solve the "nothing-at-stake" issue, see the Mauve paper for more details: http://vitalik.ca/files/mauve_paper.html

TL;DR of their approach is that if you mine off-chain blocks they can get later-on included by other (PoS-)miners via the "dunkle" mechanism. If this happens there's a penalty for the original miner who mined a block that didn't make it into the current chain.
Travelling Back in Time and Reclaiming the Lost Treasures
Hm... I'm curious, would you consider the Holocaust to have been "fake news" ?

Even though you provided some "reputable" sources, it's hard to take anyone that uses the word "leftist" seriously. Especially when:

[0] https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...

[1] http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/the-strange-strange-story-of-gay-...
If he knows in advance that he's not going to believe it anyway, why would he bother?
It's such a tired argument. Should we be horrified that humans decided to invent and evolve technologies that lead to anything possibly harmful?
Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.
I think so. There's a fine line that demarcates ML from data science from big data, for example, and it seems there's lots of chasing small differences that goes on as heat shifts from one fad to another. My guess is that a lot of people in one group could be moved to another, but rather than say "oh, you're working on X+epsilon, could you learn X and do that instead?" its "Oh you don't do X, we'll go hire someone who does X."
My side project blew up
In my experience, audiobooks are excellent for wide open freeway miles, and much less beneficial in traffic. One small event(close call) becomes an attention tangent and I miss last 10 or more seconds of content. Which leads to fiddling to scan back which becomes a distraction/irritation.

Try driving in silence. It allows me to process yesterday and anticipate the coming day.
Exactly! This is one of those cases where "Well someone is gonna do it" applies. And they may as well also try to cement themselves into the workflow. It's a very strategic move.
Actually, it's normal in HN historically to post links to previous discussions on the same link. There's no reason to get upset about such a comment.
Interesting. While I think this would make it harder to edit someone's voice, if you're clever enough to design software to read the timecode, you're able to remove it from the spectrum and insert your own with similar room ambience.
I think the commenter is addressing the overall implication of the article (that "fake news" is common and widespread) rather than the specific instance they're investigating. If this was a one-off, it's not really newsworthy.
Do this by autotuning everything I say and I'm sold.
It would be trivial to filter out any kind of watermarking. Watermarks get photoshopped out of images all the time.

On the other hand, if there was some way to add a watermark that was also a cryptographic signature, you could actually prevent editing.

I have no idea how you would implement such a signature system though.
Does anyone use one of those induction hotplates with the built-in temperature control? (Yes, the device made common knowledge in the last some years by infomercials.)

If so, any recommendations as to quality models and perhaps features to look for?

As for budget cooking, I can always recommend microwaving a sweet potato. A very simple route to a quite nutritious serving or three of vegetable. Sweet potato, that is -- not a regular potato -- in terms of nutritional value.

Eggs are inexpensive and nutritious. You can get little cooking dishes for them that go into the microwave. Or hard boil them, if you have the means for that.
uh, no shit
Calm down, kid.

Re-read the title sweetheart: it talks about the US, so it must obviously pertain to US gov't and US dollars.

From your profile:

>> Message To Self: It is okay to be wrong.

Yes, you are wrong, so calm down, kid.
Love Linode or Digital Ocean's style who put storage and bandwidth clearly in the pricing chart!

I can't never figure how to calculate Google, AWS's storage, bandwidth cost. They seems to do that on purpose to confuse potential users.
There are literally zero comments on those other two, so they aren't discussions.
3 things for a healthy consumer credit system
After 32-years of buying from Apple, I'm done once my brand new devices get relegated to my kids.
I remember reading a great deal on Judith Miller, the Iraqi National Conference, and the selling of the fake news out of (originally) the New York Times that propagandized the American public into invading Iraq.

There's a number of ways that state narration becomes viral. The contacts that officials have with the media (the DNC leaks about media contacts pales in comparison to how the industry and government function together on a larger scale) coordinate messages, themes and ideas across distribution outlets - enabling large bodies of the American public to receive the same information (however fake it is or is not) in roughly the same time span.

This messaging is able to set the boundaries for the ideological debate. For instance, the Snowden Documents were reported across media outlets under the terminology "Bulk Collection" rather than Mass Surveillance, and they all made the same arguments provided to them by the state for what was going on, what was and was not legal and what data was and was not collected. Almost all of this was fake information that went viral immediately. American citizens had discussions about whether or not Merkle and Obama were upset with one another - rather than discuss the actual contents of the leaks, which the media broadly did no technical reporting on.

"Should we set up safe zones in Syria, or should we put boots on the ground?" is a safe ideological spectrum to coordinate for the American public, but it's difficult to see private-public partnership on messaging the American people to include, for example, criticism of American regime change, the US led coalitions' support of al Qaeda/Nusra/Fatah/Sham and the Islamic State Group. Both context and opinion are narrowly scoped to present particular fake perspectives that ultimately leave the American public uninformed and anxious.

Virality in general, of course, is studied by the Department of Defense, and it's Strategic Communication in Social Media (SMISC) research effort has sought to create the operating conditions and strategies to control virality of information in populations (strategic communication or "stratcom" is a DoD term for propaganda, replacing the older terminology psyops).

I think we're going to see evolving threats and technologies to detect, thwart and control virality more and more in the future - and people volunteering to be part of those networks of controlled information because its default, cheaper, has a better user experience, or just plain has all the other people.
Creating a VDSO: The Colonel's Other Chicken – Linux Journal
There are many reasons for the problem you describe. Some that I can think of are:

There are a lot of self-taught programmers. Even the good ones are only aware of a small portion of the accumulated 40+ years of knowledge in CS and SE - theory and practice. So they re-invent techniques, methods, etc thinking they have discovered something new. Since much of the literature is secreted behind paywalls, you can't really blame them.

I have noticed some academics have a fondness for "putting old wine in new bottles" and applying fancy new labels. Then when you do a keyword search their "new" method, technique, framework, etc they look like inventive geniuses. Many young academics also suffer from problem as described above.

You simply get no respect if you confess to using a framework, technique, methodology that was in widespread use 10+ years ago. It's always way cooler to be using whatever the popular flavour of the day might be.
Slightly off topic, but what I found terrible hard to look up on the specs lists for android phones is support for USB OTG. Some companies disable it, some enable it, and some switch between enabled and disabled between different sub models of the same phone. Sadly, I had to go to stores and ask to put an OTG to check for compatibility.
I live nomadically and am often without a stable-fast internet connection. So my backup solution has been catered to what I feel makes the most sense to me (Of course always open to improvements!)

I have a 1TB Google Drive plan; this stores all of my photos - whether coming in from Google Photos (Uncompressed) on my phone, GoPro, etc. as well as pretty much any sort of documents - everything goes straight to Drive. Anything I deem sensitive I throw in an encrypted volume which is then synced.

As I run macOS, I use TimeMachine for Backups - I travel with a 500GB portable SSD and store TimeMachine on there regularly. This doesn't include GoogleDrive, or any other data.

If I'm traveling somewhere, I keep my drive and laptop separate in-case one is lost.

If my computer ever fails, is stolen, etc. then I should be able to purchase a new one, restore with TimeMachine, and then camp out in an area with fast internet to restore anything on GoogleDrive I'd like, and should be able to start working again immediately.

I know I have a single point of failure with only one TimeMachine backup; I'd like to improve that. However it's also not catastrophic if it's lost; just a pain in the butt as it'd take me time to get my environment back to the way I like it.

Recently with the stories of Google locking out their users - I'd like to setup a routine of storing 'Google Takeout' on some drives and throw those in storage as I know I have a lot of information in there.
> You can start by working out the ratio of volumes between a sphere of radius 1 and the enclosing cube in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions (i.e. a line segment, a circle, and a sphere, respectively). You'll see that the ratio starts at 1 and decreases as the dimension increases.

Be careful using low-dimensional phenomena as a guide to the asymptotic behaviour! If you take a sphere of radius 2, rather than radius 1, then the analogous ratio increases for a while (until n = 5), but then decreases to 0.
Can't wait to noodle around with this, amazing creative potential.
"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."

Is there a name for the fallacy of giving the first person to market all the credit for an idea whose time has, essentially, come, with or without them?

Surely this is an idea obvious enough that, had Adobe not done (and publicized!) this, someone else would?

Edit: sense
>> No, it was designed to replace SMS. Hence the character limit.

No, it was a group messaging app which used SMS as the transmission method. Hence the character limit.
The trouble, of course, is who gets to decide what is "fake" and what isn't. Even history books get constantly rewritten because people change their minds about what is accurate and what isn't.

It's why professional historians try to stick with original sources, for example.
Hindsight is 20/20, and that applies to everyone. Sorry to say, but not all journalist are incompetents like you suggest. Yeah of course after Trump "won" the election you can say "yeah of course he did it was so obvious, how come none of those stupid journalists could see it" yadda yadda. Same thing for this fake news phenomenon. Did you realize it was happening before Trump won the election and gave us all a rude wake up slap?
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX! A LIE!
How many posts about fake news and evils of Facebook will NYT write, and how many will end up on HN?

Yes, there are lying tweets out there and social media is designed in a way that makes spreading this stuff easy. As long as you have an audience that really wants to hear something, they will share your messages. But, really, this is neither new, nor surprising. And it's not exclusive to Trump supporters. It's not even exclusive to social media. Mainstream media also occasionally reposts each other's stories without fact-checking. (Remember Tim Hunt?)

Why is this suddenly a subject of almost daily articles? Did some editor wake up from a 10-year coma or something? (I'm being facetious, of course. It's obvious why.)

I remember several year ago mainstream media was singing high praise to social media during Arab Spring.

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Another thing worth considering is that the whole story started with a single Tweet from non-celebrity. It seems it wasn't even an intentional lie, just someone jumping to conclusions. Is that news? I don't think so, unless you want to count every blog post and every comment as such.

Does a re-post on Reddit or Facebook somehow make it news? I don't think so either.

At what point does a post from an individual become news? This question is important, because some people are already jumping on the bandwagon and demanding social networks to "combat" this, whatever "this" is.

The issue is that a lot of such stories are false, but some of them are true. No one in the pipeline is a journalist or an editor with incentives to do fact-checking. And everyone can always link to the original post, say "Joe Shmoe posted such and such on Twitter" and thus completely relegate responsibility for the content. (Modern mainstream media pulls these kinds of stunts all the time: http://pressthink.org/2014/05/democrats-argue-republicans-co...)
SparkLabs names 14 startups for its Internet of Things accelerator
> I think the alternative that nobody is in control at all is even more scary for some people (maybe all people).

But that's not true either, those two are not the only possibilities. The fact is that what happens in the world is usually due to the collective action of many different people and groups, with converging and diverging opinions. It's something like vector math, the resultant vector determines direction of decision making. The mass narrative which has been sold is that no one is in control, and things just happen. Which is also not true. Implicit conspiracy is common, when those interests converge.

The headline might as well as be mass propaganda techniques no longer working. HALP! Or maybe mass propaganda techniques have been democratized. HALP!
Here's the news story that Fox News posted in its non-opinion, non-blog, supposedly-factual reporting section of their site.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/trump-protests-intensif...

Here's some quality facts from that article.

"""
But observers online are claiming that, in some cases, protesters were bused to the scenes - a telltale sign of coordination.

“Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem,” one local in the Texas capitol tweeted Wednesday, along with photos offered as evidence.

[...]

Rumors have also been circulating that the new batch of anti-Trump protesters has been bankrolled by individuals like billionaire liberal activist George Soros and groups like Moveon.org.

“WTF, @georgesoros busing in & paying #protestors to destroy cities is domestic #terrorism. #fakeProtests #BlueLivesMatter have tough days,” read one tweet in response to the viral picture of buses in Austin.
"""

Fox News runs pieces using these fantasy tweets as their primary source. They also run these stories on their TV network that your mom watches all day.
Are we really doing nothing? Im quoting the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt here:

"Researchers have estimated there are anywhere from 1500 to 2500 discrete skills and activities we undertake while driving. Even the simplest thing — shifting gears — is a decision-making process consuming what is called "cognitive workload." We’re operating heavy machinery at speeds beyond our long evolutionary history, absorbing (and discarding) huge amounts of information, and having to make snap decisions — often based on limited situational awareness, guesses about what others are going to do, or a hazy knowledge of the actual traffic law. It took years of research, for example, by some of the country’s top robotics researchers, to create expensive, sophisticated self-driving "autonomous vehicles" that are basically mediocre beginning drivers that you’d never want to let loose in everyday traffic. When we forget that driving isn’t necessarily as easy as it seems to be, we get into trouble."
Keep in mind it doesn't need to be an overnight solution! Sign up for a streaming service you like, and subscribe to the music you want and delete your local copy as you go.

Unsure about Spotify - but Google Music allows you to upload your own collection as well.
Why make this an attack specifically against Americans?

Plenty of dumb people everywhere. Fake news, state news, no news, they'll eat it up.

I've basically given up on trying to show anyone any sort of truth. A third of my life is over and we're not even to the point where 10/10 people could tell you which way is up without consulting some blog or CNN.

I just gotta carve the best life I can, regardless of any mob rule.
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