skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as a credible source, any more than there is any such thing as a glass incapable of holding poisoned liquid.

It's the actual information that is credible or not, and the NYT hasn't been doing any favours for itself recently on that front.

For those that don't understand what I'm talking about, just look at their response to the pizzagate thing and the response that provoked in turn;

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/801283157244997632

This is not to be taken as an admission that I think the pizzagate stuff is either definitely true or definitely false, merely that their attempt to cover it amounted to "Nothing to see here, please move along" and completely fell flat on its face with actually addressing any of the evidence raised over the course of the affair.
> From about 2005-2009 I founded a hotel reservation platform in direct competition to CTrip and ELong

So it's hotels only? No flights, cars etc?
A libertarian here. Governemnts were not need to come before, they are not needed now. Internet is mutual and voluntary agreement between different subnets. The solution is threat of throwing the misbehaving party out of the group. Thats it.

The market oppertunity is not for non-hackable thermostats but for more advanced internet routers which can do more advanced packet inspection under low latency.
Our particular industry is full of small and medium size enterprises, and collecting a (negotiable) percentage of the total project price upfront has worked very well for us, and saved our ass more than once. If you work exclusively with Fortune 500 or equivalent then it's not necessary (and would probably be a red flag, as you say) but for everyone else it's pretty common practice.

Of course, if what you're trying to say is that the only "serious consulting" is "high-dollar consulting" where you serve such clients, then I don't know what to tell you. But that's neither here nor there.

For the record, our projects range from $25k to $150k.
As a sailor in the US Navy, let me quote from the Chairman's letter leading the OPM breach report (1), here he is addressing all federal CIOs:

The effectiveness of our country's response depends on your answer to this question: Can you as the CIO be trusted with highly personal, highly sensitive data on millions of Americans?

I guarantee most Federal CIOs never even saw the report, and wouldn't believe the question actually applies to them. The folks at DDS did though (including Matt Cutts), and I'm willing to bet they have it pinned up on the wall.

(1) https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-O...
In that case it's likely a script generating these to catch people in google searches. "Fake news" for sure, but not politically motivated.
I am a little nervous about this switch, but it is definitely a high quality machine with solid attention to detail.

Also, Windows 10 seems pretty solid.

I have a long way to go, but I am hoping that I can use the Thanksgiving break to get over the hump and be relatively productive when I get back to the office on Monday.

I am pretty committed to making the switch though. I am taking notes in case the transition is worth sharing later.
The gap between fortran and python is so huge that you can afford a performance hit on the fortran end and still end up way ahead.
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Flag - duplicate - you may want to delete this.

There are about 10 threads on this in the last two hours. Some have 300 comments.

Take a look - one #28 is still on the front page now with almost 500 comments.
People are missing the satire here.
> A $20 webcam suddenly needs $500/year just in ongoing maintenance and updates.

Yes, but what is the negative externality the market is not currently capturing when these devices are assumed into botnets and used against others? Simple economics states that the $20 device is $20 because somebody else is paying for the security mistakes of the shitty device's developers.
Actually, it has to do with the oxide layer in the Lithium battery. Good temperatures make it degrade slower, but it still degrades. LiFePO4 degrades slower than LiPo by a factor of 5 or better, but has lower power density (3.2V instead of 3.7V.)

Yes, LiPos degrade with use. My five year old car has 80% capacity. My One Plus from beta has about 85% capacity.
Yep. Flights in China are routed through a single government clearing house not multiple commercial systems as per the west. In addition, at that time tickets still required physical delivery to the customer. Therefore, we considered it was too much hassle to go through the government approvals in order to compete with established local providers, a market which remains very fragmented. Car rental is beginning to take off now, but was exceptionally rare at that time.
If you haven't seen the documentary Hot Coffee, I highly recommend it. Very interesting look at that case.
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I am very surprised that this book is not on the list: https://www.amazon.com/War-Flea-Classic-Guerrilla-Warfare/dp...
> So in this case, the fake news was created by the left to discredit the alt-right, rather than by the alt-right to promote their views.

And so after the gullible rubes swallowed his bit of fake news hook line and sinker, he ran to tell the world.
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A government created the internet. I'm not sure we'd be having this discussion if a government hadn't laid the foundation.
I think you're doing a great job. Moderating threads and submissions that are basically guaranteed to be shitshows (like this one) is an incredibly thankless job.

Thanks for keeping it together, and thanks for keeping this from going off the rails.
Of course it can be done. This is about trust in the people running Reddit. In any operation, people can lie, cheat, and steal. You win the trust of customers and users by proving that you don't.
You got half up front for a $150k SOW?
I don't agree. Chan admins and mods are known for messing with users all the time. This kind of silent word filtering seems right up their alley.

Banning Pizzagate (as absurd as it is) would definitely have created an uproar, though, much like banning Gamergate did.
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People who are downvoting you into the pavement are misguided, I think. Your point is still interesting even if the terminology you used is wrong.
And fake news the majority of it on Facebook is shared by Trump supporters.

A demographic who are neophytes....
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It did not include comments AFAIK.
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> publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction

Denounce those stories by making $30k a month as a spammer ? that's how this guy "denounces the alt-right" ? and NPR buys that argument just like that ?
How differently would you be reacting if he hadn't admitted it, apologized, explained that he was reacting impulsively under pressure and stress, and fixed the changes?

I'm worried that the answer is "not at all", which seems weird.
In many cases it's less a concern of the client not paying (I've literally never had a client do that once I broke out of the <$100/hr market) so much as that an upfront payment is a much stronger signal of commitment to the project. In my experience, clients who haven't yet paid anything are less invested in the process and more likely to delay communication/deliverables.

It's also a consequence of occasionally doing work with startups who, while they have every intention of paying, don't always have rigorous financial controls in place and sometimes end up running into cashflow problems.

I'd flip your analysis on its head: if there's a consultant you're not comfortable with paying upfront, you probably don't want to hire them.
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It's not unreasonable to expect that a device connected to the Internet should be patchable over the same connection.

As for the influence on other countries -- blocking their traffic is an effective way to convince them of the need to take action. For sure this still means temporary disruptions and maintenance cost for every operator, but it's part of the "cost of living" on the Net as long as the others don't catch up. Take it or leave it.

(yes, I am aware of the security risks of hijacking the updates, but it's still still a better control than no control at all)
Agreed,how long is the investigation? It's only been a month. Isn't saying it hasn't been used at this stage kind of absurd?

Why even mention that part at all, just makes them sound dumber. Should have just said "there's an active investigation, we will release the full scope in a report later"
Because mods aren't paid and are generally put in power by their specific community to uphold the communally agreed upon standards and rules.

Admins are paid employees of a company (reddit) that provides a platform for communities and discussion. If the platform itself is biased, then it is not really a platform but rather a specific media / viewpoint forum.

The distinction matters.
I don't think the laptop was specifically targeted. People generally don't follow the rules and walk around with too much information that isn't secure. They're bamboozled with phishing and like to click on rar files that have their FEDEX shipping documents for a package they never sent.

Or they have a developer image on their laptop that isn't locked down and download Warez or Torrent and visit Porno sites.

Until there are consequences when this kind of thing happens, like people getting fired or severe penalties, I'm afraid it will just continue. It's either some 15 year old kid in Eastern Europe or the Chinese and Russians have some more info to build dossiers on the American Armed Forces.
I met Steve several years back while going through YC. He's a much calmer and nicer person than most founders I've met, myself included.

If I read this Reddit thread without knowing him, I would have deemed him unprofessional and maybe even upvoted some of the comments.

When I read the thread knowing who he is, I'm thinking "I can't imagine how stressful it must be to run Reddit. He made one mistake in a bad day, apologized for it, and now everyone's talking about it. Steve's way nicer and more professional than I am, so I would probably have messed up big time in his shoes."
Except they probably don't want to promise that...
> The parts of the OS you are describing were not designed in a modular way

On what basis are you saying that?
Finally got around to watching this. Super interesting. Exactly what I was thinking about.

Thanks!
Or "Jestin Coler" is just the name the author used to protect his real identity.
I actually think we agree more than it may seem, even if not entirely. I too am no longer comfortable working for or with those people. I just think it's egregiously bad form for a CEO to send a mass email calling for X group to quit if Y. Whether that's that you voted for a political candidate, or whatever. It's a pitchfork-y mentality that I think only serves to embolden whoever the perceived opposition is, even if it's in the medium or long term rather than the immediate. In this case, it's the racists/alt-right/etc. And to me, actions like Maloney's only strengthen communities like /r/The_Donald. Just my 2c.
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Obvious question I know.. but why were the SSNs of sailors on some HP contractor's laptop?
Yeh I think everybody is saying that if you are already hosting the source on GH, there is no need to host the static files on S3 -- you may as well just host it on GH:pages, because that will be free and you get all the benefits of S3.
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When did NYT go from being 'intelectual' to being 'left-wing'. I guess next it'll be 'communist'.
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> what are the odds that the results you observed could have arisen by chance?

> the probability of the results you observed (or more extreme) given chance

I think he said the same thing as you. He didn't talk about "the odds that the results you observed have arisen by chance" but the odds that the results you have observed (the or more extreme is implicit) could have arisen by chance (i.e. the probability of happening by chance alone, given that only chance was involved).
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In all these interviews with fake news makers, I've been amused that people who are obvious experts at telling people what they want to hear are still telling people what they want to hear. And it sails right by the real journalists un-noted.
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And what's your point caller? Your statement sounds like blind trust and assumption rather than any actual knowledge. Sorry, I can't do that.

So let me run the exercise a bit... DHS... Patriot Act?... All that Snowden revealed stuff?... Invasion of Iraq?... Lybia?... Syria?... the U.S. Border?...

OK... a bit glib, but the point is there: where are the successes where the government protected citizens successfully without a disproportionate reduction of rights of those citizens. Off the top of my head, I can cite about as many as you did. I imagine there are some out there... but the track record isn't so good.
All I know is that John Podesta and his brother were invited to a spirit cooking dinner [1]. I haven't seen any evidence they attended but it was an interesting email that was uncovered.

I don't believe lizard people are real.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893
Don't worry, I go to Reddit every day and this is the first I've heard of it.
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I'm using the language of my parent. If you have a beef with "credible source", I encourage you to take it up with them. :)
I don't think the NPR passed judgement as to whether it should be bought or not. They are letting us decide.

My value judgement is that this is a terrible way to make money and it is unfortunate blatant lies are not somehow slander, despite it being about a prominent individual. The rolling stone was held liable for their false article about sexual assault. I wish this guy could be as well.

He duped millions of people.
um, no. Educated people voted against him.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-pre...

(Unless of course not graduating from college makes someone a college graduate in the post-fact world.)
Weighted least squares should do the trick, i.e. scale your data with the inverse covariance matrix
You probably have no idea the degree to which the IT people in and around the military maximize their belief that those simpleton sailors not in the IT circle of trust are sheeple, and that they, the IT gods are, each and every one, the grand saviors of the Republic.

That sort of arrogance begets an unprecedented sense of entitlement. Coupled with a severe dependence on Microsoft Tuesday updates, and a general inability to recognize an SQL query (not making that up), and you have a real problem.

I would not doubt, for a second, that 134k SSNs were on some contractor's laptop.
Well, then open source is well above average, seeing as 90% of everything is crap.[0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Except such a data set is also inconsistent with an infinite number of models, so ruling one out via rejecting a null also provides practically no information value and moves us no closer to understanding. /devils advocate

In practical terms, we're not interested in true models, but useful ones, so the description of a model's consistency with observed data is often the more useful metric in practice than rejecting nulls :/ especially in applications where you can't set up repeated experiments.

OK, I realise its more nuanced than that too, but given how many papers and practitioners seem incapable of understanding that evidence against the null it's not explicit evidence for an arbitrary alternative, practically and consequentially I don't think that's how we should be working...
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Talk complete with a cameo of a military veteran/mercenary leader.
As this rebuttal points out, the original article basically finds two flaws in Python 3 and then tries to puff them up as much as possible. These two complaints are:

* Python 3 is not backwards-compatible with Python 2.

* Byte strings and character strings are different things so now I have to care about stuff.

Although I say that it's two things, it's really one thing since the main element of incompatibility is the byte string/character string issue, since it's that incompatibility that makes it hard to know what the right thing to do is.

Having had to deal with internationalization before, I can honestly say that there's only one way to handle it: convert all string data to your internal representation (be it UTF-8 (Rust), UTF-16 (Java), or UTF-32 (Python)) at the margin where you read/write it, and keep binary strictly separate from textual in terms of representation. This is what Python 3 does and what Python 2 doesn't do. I have seen some people argue that Python 2's model is better because it means that writing something like cat is harder, but that's optimizing for the wrong thing. I've seen a build system written in Python 2 break for the sole reason that I thought to write 一 in the commit message.

As for the complaint that it's taking 9 years for Python3 to slowly become the default instead of Python2, keep in mind that 15 years after the release of C99, gcc was still using C89 by default (gcc 5 skipped C99 and went straight to C11).
HP does government consulting, it's quite likely they were working on an application that needed access to that data. When I was a civilian working in Navy medicine (building apps), that was often the case.
To clarify I'm familiar with how Fortran handles generic programming and my frustration with it extends well beyond having to write interface blocks (although these are annoying too). I regard having several versions of functions handling e.g. different length floats as pretty tedious repetition - that in my experience can quickly turn into a maintenance nightmare. Maybe this is outside the scope of what an IDE could help with though. Could some kind of function templating be possible in future versions of Fortran?
Right. Most businesses (non-restaurant) are going to easily be able to get around this rule and make things worse for employees. It will exacerbate the "contract employee" revolution in office settings.
Or HelloSign :)
What world view do you think this website represents?

Furthermore, wherein do I censor and/or deny that an attack occurred? The title says "News crew goes to Sweden to show how peaceful refugees are" - yet the actual segment is the exact opposite of that. You can see the video yourself, as well as the context I point out - or lack thereof, as it were.
More like after he got caught, he felt the need to spin.
Poor phrasing on my part. It's more about long term performance. My manager knows I'll get my work done so she doesn't really care how it gets done.

You are correct that there is always more work to do, but if I find myself reasonably caught up by noon and everything else can wait until tomorrow, I often just call it a day. My manager doesn't care.
Clearly quoting the article adds value to the conversation since several of the posters above didn't even see the relevance of referring to trump.

I'd argue the display issue is more the fault of HN than the poster.
The_Donald is called "The_Donald" not "politics". "politics" shouldn't have the exact same problems as "The_Donald".
If the client wanted to pay cash, yeah. Most clients are very understanding, because our offering includes purchasing licenses for certain enterprise software and tooling, and the upfront payment from the client covers those costs.

That said, for projects that size we also offer a lease option (basically a 60-month term) and a lot of clients prefer that since it becomes an operational expense at that point (and therefore easier to swallow) rather than a capital expense. In those situations, we work with a leasing company who pays us 100% of the price upfront, and the client makes their monthly payments to the leasing company.
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Without a way of proving someone isn't lying about what you said, how can what you say be used against you in a court of law? How could evidence gathered by police be used in a court of law? It could be fabricated! We are just trusting they found those drugs in that car! They could be from anywhere!

Every online interaction that's ever been used in the history of the internet is malleable. There is crypto technology to prevent this, but it isn't being used.

We still try people just fine, based on trust and belief. You can check to see if something's been altered.

Why are people pretending this is new or a big deal? Of course online forums aren't reliable. Of course they are owned by the administrators and can be modified at will. Did an administrator do it to mess with a bunch of screaming blubbering nasty and horrible trolls calling him a pedophile, and institute a silly find/replace rule as a kind of petty revenge? Yeah. Was it childish? Sure. But seriously, who cares? Who really believes that reddit is serious business? When online forums take your swear word and replace it with symbols do you throw a hissy fit about "freedom of speech"?
This is a mistake that has profound implications. Not just your average mistake like "I broke the build and didn't tell anyone" nonsense.
Since the government had taken over education aren't they responsible for churning out morons who can't think for themselves and distinguish fake news from real news? Perhaps that was their goal all along.
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I will never get used to the trailing slash on source arguments in BSD cp (that copies directory contents rather than the directory itself)! The first thing I do on an OS X machine is install GNU coreutils.
I doubt it. In the article someone else linked they said all the events were pretty tightly coordinated. I don't want to take the time to actually nerd out on the math, but it seems like there'd be one ratio you'd apply to everything. Like if the song's 124bpm at 60fps (2.066..7beats per frame), you'd want to multiple all that by 100 if you're shooting at 6000fps, so like 206.66..7 beats per frame. THen you can run the video back in super slow mo (60 fps again) and get the real 124bpm deal?
That's exactly my point?

(In this case people did check and it was fake. But when it first arose there was no way to verify that - which is what I thought I said above?)
I realise this is not what you asked, but I found some interesting history on the topic: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
...just like over reliance on google.com to search internet?

some people say "yes", some people say "nonsense".
Of course, but I don't understand why usb specs are relevant.
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Large in terms of company size, not in terms of internet reach.
You assholes spent 8+ years promoting the racist lie that our duly elected first black president was born in Africa. You tried to delegitimize him based on nothing but his skin color. And you used fake news and dishonest, bigoted, white-supremacist web sites to do it.

To pretend this is just harmless, standard politics is bullshit. Cowards are behind this crap, and you sheep eat it up.