skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more concrete: Obama granted himself the authority to make a treaty without Senate approval. Sounded fine to most people at the time, because Congress was just "obstructing" everything anyway.

Now Trump has that power. I wonder how he'll use it?

(Aside from the obvious, which is to dismantle the Iran deal. That's bad enough, because it means our promises now only last as long as the current administration.)
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CEO of Reddit confessed to modifying posts from Trump supporters
it will lead nowhere... but civil war would be interesting!
As a pathology resident, I assure you, the voided stream is not sterile, and definitely has all the building blocks necessary for bacterial growth.

That said, inland cities all recycle water. And they generally return water into the rivers that is cleaner than what they took out.
> the chat right now needs features to prevent abuse

Does it? It sounds like this is built for internal corporate/team use where this isn't a problem.
While an abuse of power, I'm not sure I see the outrage.

It's Reddit. It's an Internet forum run by a private corporation. The users in question abusing spez have zero right to their speech on the platform. You have zero recourse if Reddit edits your comments.

Nuke /r/the_donald, nuke the users and hellban their IPS of those who sent abusive messages, and let's move on. Bask in the irony when I say, "Drain the swamp"
Do you actually have something actionable in this comment?

I mean, at an actionable level, "healing-crystals" should be labeled factually as to their efficacy. And "prayer" should be encouraged as a way to keep you thinking about things you are not acting on.

So, should we "do something about them?" I am not pushing for banning of any activities. I'm not even hiding behind "free speech" as a shield. I did misspeak, though. I do not necessarily want to discourage lying. What I do want to do is encourage truth.

This is one of the reasons that "changed their minds" doesn't bother me. Everyone has likely been wrong about something in their life. Confronting that truth is not easy. And should be celebrated.

Do I like being called out for having been wrong? No. Not even a little. It is a painful experience. Am I glad when it happens. Absolutely. I am a better person for it.
This was the most interesting part for me...

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He says he got into fake news around 2013 to highlight the extremism of the white nationalist alt-right.

"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.

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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. Oh man. I don't think this tactic can lead to anything good. I hope we don't get to the point where it's really just all out information warfare... and it seems like we're already halfway there.
> But, he says, dozens, maybe hundreds of entrepreneurs will be ready to take his place.

This is one of many examples of the dialog where this individual is speaking for others while ironically indicating he's running a "business". The fabrication and willful spread of disinformation is a powerfully disruptive behavior.
> Instead it took the approach of an egotistical maniac who demanded perfection and required that all the pieces fit together as part of an elegant puzzle. No small feat and not really replicated today -- except for Tesla and SpaceX.

Off topic, but Tesla and SpaceX are definitely not "egotistical maniac who demanded perfection and required that all the pieces fit together as part of an elegant puzzle"
I'm reminded of Anscombe's Quartet as an example of how a little visualization can reveal things that might be hidden behind summary statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
So within 24 hours of Reddit deleting /r/pizzagate for allegedly doxxing people (which was incorrect by the way, the mods were visibly running an extremely tight ship with regards to personally identifying information as per site policy) it is revealed that Reddit posts have zero integrity and can be silently altered. Very interesting.

If that alleged /r/pizzagate doxxing even happened, how do we know that genuine Reddit users were the ones actually doxxing people? Who is to say that comments weren't altered because the admins were pressured to find an excuse to get rid of that board?

And what pizza place owner has this kind of pull to be in the GQ top 50 most powerful washington people? Also how does a random pizza place owner get a "boo hoo, please feel so sorry for me" puff piece in the New York Times that straw manned many of the arguments or ignored some of the weirdest circumstantial evidence. The evidence is admittedly circumstantial at the moment, nobody is saying to march them in front of a firing squad without a reasonable and fair investigation and trial, but there's something to this when powerful people are trying to brush under the rug.

If you have a brain and are capable of thinking for yourself, you'll see that there's more to Pizzagate than meets the eye. Read about it with an open mind: I initially thought it was a joke too, but this attempt at censorship only raises more questions.

/u/spez's admission further raises interesting legal questions for reddit. What happens with /u/stonetear's and other legal cases now? How do any legal cases involving content on Reddit work now that the integrity of posts are nonexistent? Any defendant's lawyer will have a field day arguing that somebody who did something illegal here didn't do it.

And what becomes of Reddit itself? Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes providers of interactive computer services against liability arising from content created by third parties. Well, what happens when who is the content creator is possibly ambiguous? Do Reddit Shareholder's approve of this policy?
I've run 1Password in wine on Arch for years. Both the app and the browser plugin are styled like Win95 applications (even after changing the winecfg settings), but otherwise run flawlessly.

I have wondered if running 1Password through wine would introduce some not-considered attack vector, but I've yet to hear it.
If Apple open sourced all of macOS maybe that would put more pressure on Microsoft to intentionally[1] open source Windows.

[1]: It has been open sourced in the past:

https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-takes-pirated-windows-nt-...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1030335/leaked-wind...
People have the power to do a lot of things. You have the power to quite easily lie, cheat, and steal in this world. When you run a website, like when you run a business, you have to convince your customers/users to trust you not to do those things.
Ask HN: What are your favorite variants on the “Now You have Two Problems” joke?
Example:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use Machine Learning.” Now they have two problems.
The first "fake news" I remember seeing was about a year ago, and it was completely apolitical - it was a made-up story about a multiple-fatality car crash in my city. When I investigated the source, it had several exact copies of the same article, just set in different cities around the world.

At the time I was completely bewildered as to the motive behind this, but I can only assume that it's the ad money, as paltry as that would seem. Coler's protestations notwithstanding.
Ok, so Reddit has been filled with some pretty "deplorable" characters as of late... and to censor them and edit comments... holy fuck, these are not the people you want to do that to. Especially given that they will self-destruct if you just leave them alone. Fueling the fire like this... honestly that's some horrific judgement on the part of u/Spez. Probably time for a new CEO.

But... then again... Reddit's best days are behind it. Doesn't really matter who is at the helm.

* Reddit is still in turmoil | Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12140603
That is just ridiculous. Creating false stories, calling out anyone who doesnt agree with them with insulting names, going on witch hunts etc is not protesting the restrictions on free speech. This only strengthens the resolve of people who want to restrict free speech even more.
That and freedom of speech is a protected and valued right in our democracy.

If fake memes are wrecking your country maybe it's not the memes that are the problem?
Quoting blocks of text this way makes it really hard to read due to side-scrolling, particularly on mobile.
I don't know if I'll be able to believe anything any more. At least I can still trust the news on my Facebook feed.
Funny, I'm inclined to think it's actually concave. The poorest don't actually have time to worry about this stuff, they're way too busy just surviving. The wealthiest don't have time to worry about this stuff, they're way too busy trying to increase the growth rate of their wealth. The people who do actually care the most end up in the middle - they're smart and resourceful enough to not be in extreme poverty, but also too kind and selfless to have gained extreme wealth.

Though I think the fact that we can have exactly opposite hypotheses about this metric points to the reality that there isn't really any neat curve to this, or likely most other sorts of hypotheses about complex human beliefs/behaviors projected on a two dimensional space.
> There's a downside to spelling things out completely

Are you gonna make every title a puzzle?

No, it doesn't need to be all of them --- just enough to provide a healthy level of 'environmental enrichment'. I presume you are familiar with the 'herding cats' metaphor for programmers. Well, we're the cats, and 'dang' is the herder.

Environmental enrichment encourages the use of "puzzle feeders" that require the cats to practice their hunting instincts rather than expecting their meals to be provided to them in a bowl: http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/the-benefits-of-using-p...

(at least, that's the way I've always viewed it)
I suppose there's the potential for making people cast a more critical eye over outlandish articles that appear to support their own position, if there's a possibility that it might have been created by "the enemy" to discredit them.
>The free market crowd would argue

The free market crowd lost all credibility after Enron, Worldcom, and the housing collapse. They had countless reasons why the above scenarios wouldn't happen. Reality proved their theories to be the complete and utter BS any rational human being could see from the start. In a utopian society a lot of ideas are great, unfortunately we've got reality to deal with, not utopia.
Leaked source code is not open source dude. Open source is software licensed under terms compatible with these rules: https://opensource.org/osd
A couple months ago I was on the bus, and a religious person started preaching. Loudly. It was really annoying. I asked him to stop, and he hid behind some reference to his constitutionally protected rights. I did nothing, but I really wanted to do something. A certain subreddit reminds me of preacher duds on the bus.

I wish I had better tools to deal with assholes. Savvy leadership can come up with clever solutions sometimes, but it'd be nice to somehow reduce the need to be clever.
I think this is part of my pathological customers thesis: you won't simply have more headaches at $500 than $5k because the customers are more evil about $500 invoices. You'll have more problems because _people who get into $500 consulting relationships are disproportionately flakes_. You get less flaky behavior from your $5k clients because people who buy $5k services are disproportionately not flakes; the $5k sticker price is kryptonite to flakes.

Bargain-seeking consulting consumers have irrational expectations for what $500 buys them. The $500 is likely coming out of a personal pocket or a pocket which they treat as personal, not out of a Budget which gets handled like an honest-to-God business. They are disproportionately likely to have overcommitted that $500 -- it's perhaps not their last $500, but your invoice is sitting with a number of other invoices and it may not be possible to settle them all simultaneously.

Many of my consulting friends move up-market and find that up-market consists of businesses run by disproportionately mentally healthy people who disproportionately have money in the bank and disproportionately conduct themselves with professional mien like paying invoices in a fashion that suggests their company has paid an invoice before.
> The result is that reddit expels it's undesirable members without anything so controversial as banning them.

Except for the part where the CEO personally edited user's posts to say things they didn't say? Yes. Genius. Not controversial at all...
>/u/spez's admission further raises interesting legal questions for reddit. What happens with /u/stonetear's and other legal case now? How do any legal cases involving content on Reddit work now that the integrity of posts are nonexistent? Any defendant's lawyer will have a field day arguing that somebody who did something illegal here didn't do it.

Complete nonsense, this argument will hold up just as badly as it would've held up before.
Why would anyone put so much time and money into an activity they hope to lose?

I think the whole issue was created to make him look bad. "Hey, if you lose, will you accept the results?" After Gore/Bush, I don't know if anybody would immediately say "Yes" without thinking about the possibility of questionable things happening. Would you accept the results of an election with fraud? Until the election happens, you can't have 100% confidence that you won't think there was some fraud.

A lot of us here have questions about voting machines, people voting who shouldn't, etc. These are natural concerns that should be Hillary's concerns (as they are now) and not just Trump's.

The question was not "Assuming there is iron clad proof of no voter fraud, will you accept the results if you lose?" The answer would almost certainly have been "Yes" in that case. I think all of us on this site are smart enough to assign non-zero probability to the chance that this question was asked WITHOUT the "no voter fraud" disclaimer specifically to elicit the reaction that it got.
> Recount is different from rejection

Recount is also different then acceptance.

This recount is purely academic. You would have to alter tens of thousands of votes across several states to change this election's outcome. No harm in being academic I suppose. Hope the millions are worth it.
I can understand it for higher earners. You are well compensated, typically better conditions and have employment options should the enviroment become toxic.

For lower pays absolutely. If an employers agrees to X contracted hours/rate and then demands X+ hours because they know you cant say no, this is essentially theft. And to not pass this as rule essentially mandates it as OK. I hope this gets sorted. I suspect this judge and any future politicians/judges involved will come under a heap of scrutiny/pressure over this. It is simply too clearly unjust not to pass it. It would follow a person for the rest of their career and they would know it.
Needing/Getting is pretty cool as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
Reddit had credibility?

Personally, I think this is hilarious.
I think the author's point was not that python3 is dying. His point was that it deserved death, that 2.7 is flourishing, while 3 is failing to thrive, and reasons for this were postulated.
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But it also creates an environment where you can't ever actually know what any group thinks. "Are there REALLY neo-nazis giving nazi salutes celebrating Trump's victory on video, or is this a staged event to make Trump look like he has neo-nazi supporters?" "Are there even that many well dressed, non-tattoo'd neo-nazis?" (Maybe there are... I don't know any personally, but I wasn't expecting to see people in button down shirts and khakis and clean looking... apologies to any neo-nazis that may be reading this for having a pre-formed impression of what you might be like.)

And what happens when a group comes along that REALLY DOES have absolutely crazy views? "Oh well, that was discredited, but that group doesn't ACTUALLY believe the (minority group here) are the cause of all our problems. That's just some fake news designed to discredit them. I like some of the less crazy articles by these guys. I think I'll still vote for the (actually batshit crazy neo-nazi party by another name of 2032)."
I agree. While I found the article compelling, on reflection, the issue is that it doesn't at any point reflect on the fact of ever increasing rate of corporate capture of people's productivity (and wealth, though that's a separate if related issue).

The sentiment that it's responding to isn't addressed to the tech companies doing tech company things, it's addressed to the system that lionizes and entrenches the creation of wealth for wealth's sake.
That wasn't the original title. The original title is: The Admins are suffering from low energy - have resorted to editing YOUR posts. Sad!

You're objecting to the most routine of HN practices, which is to replace rewritten titles with original titles (except when the original is misleading or linkbait). In this case it doesn't fit in 80 chars and is pretty baity, so we did what we often do and took the principal sentence from the first paragraph.

Since you're a die-hard reader and therefore we love you, I'd consider suspending this most routine of HN practices just to make you happy, but first you'd have to convince me that you truly, upon reflection, think that the wording of an HN title about a Reddit shitshow is a serious trust issue. I can't bring myself to believe that any of you are really so troubled and zealous about this; it's too silly. Reddit shitshows aren't serious to begin with, and this isn't even that, it's meta Reddit ephemera.
It's for this reason that I usually use

> blockquoted text

but even that is imperfect; is there some reason that HN doesn't support actual blockquotes? has it just not been done, or is there some objection to it?

I know that perhaps egregious formatting can be detrimental, but blockquotes seem to be one of those formatting things that is extremely useful in discourse…
Can't the just point to the gnu repo?
And yet Donald Trump is blocking his press core [0], calling for an end to SNL because they made fun of him [1], telling CNN execs that they are all liars [2], revoking credentials of the Washington Post [3] among many others [4]. Sure, the reddit CEO doing it is bad... the president elect though...

0. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election...

1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78761255265415577...

2. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/22/13714052/d...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-revokes...

4. http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/14/media/donald-trump-media-bla...
> At any given time, Coler says, he has between 20 and 25 writers

Ha! He's hired some shady SEO company to write those. You can buy "spun" articles by the hundreds from black hat forums. I wouldn't be surprised if they were actually written by some poor Indian. No way can he pay 25 writers with $20-30K/month. It's just a get rich quick scheme, a spammer, but one that destroys a lot of public value in order to profit a little.
If its for the broadcom cards that's probably still a negative. I was running 11-CURRENT up until the release freeze and it never started working. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if Adrian has it working by now.
>but that it may not be necessary to keep

fixed that for me. too late for edit.
Interesting unintended consequences with this - my sister-in-law had her job hours radically shifted to deal with this rule - and not in a good way that she appreciated.
Is it? Every repo contains the complete history, github crashing tomorrow would be more of an inconvenience than a disaster.
> You can charge a capacitor at any voltage as long as you cut the current off when it acquires the desired charge / terminal voltage.

Capacitors aren't charged with a voltage, they're charged with a current. The voltage is irrelevant until breakdown occurs. More current, faster charge, less current, slower charge.

Also, there's the practical constraint that a capacitor's physical construction limits the amount of current that can be applied without overheating the capacitor's materials.

The TL;DR: one does not apply a voltage to a capacitor, one applies a current. If you doubt this, try applying a constant-voltage source to a capacitor. See what happens.
A shell is a shell for the most part. The details can be a bit different (like your $PATH), but otherwise its largely the same.
It's not cheap but also not unheard of either. In western Europe i pay ~$0.30/kWh
> I hope we don't get to the point where it's really just all out information warfare

I honestly thing we're headed for full-blown Strossian memetic warfare. The amount of high-level shilling this election cycle (both professional and amateur) was unreal.
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Being too clever or too terse is possible in any language though. It is an education and experience problem, not a language problem.

Some languages may be slightly worse than others, but the root cause (and solution) is the same across the board.
The tactic was to make money off the gullibility of people during elections and it worked. He's one of the most successful. You can't believe a professional liar who says he did it for the party, when you can also find in the same article that he makes 1000$ per day from it.
Reddit CEO admits he secretly edited comments from Donald Trump supporters
at least for Ubuntu on a 2013 MBP I had to install non-free wifi, everything else Just Worked (tm)
Any specific resources/links re: that final comment? Not something I've ever read about, although I could imagine..
Not discrediting your statement, genuinely curious.
I don't know where they get those statistics? Do they include the daily wage working families? I have several near my own home (in a city) and none of them are able to open bank accounts.
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> but how many Catholics voted for Trump because they thought he had the Pope's endorsement?

The Catholic press and Clergy had been condemning Clinton as unelectable because of her stances on abortion and other issues for four to five months. But nobody outside of the Catholics themselves really cared. The only news the mainstream news cared about was the flawed polling numbers.

Also the WikiLeaks emails that showed the DNC created fake Catholic front groups to try and agitate a 'Catholic Spring' sent shock waves around the entire Catholic press worldwide. It was all over at that point.

Trying to blame the Catholic vote on 'fake news' is a strawman.

The people who need to be educated about the dangers of 'fake news' are the people complaining about it. Censorship of 'fake news' is far more destructive and a threat to society and free speech then a few crappy websites that pump out tabloid nonsense for clicks. Civilization has been dealing with false and misleading print since the invention of the written word. Its nothing new and people have the faculties to understand and discount it.
Disclaimer: I'm the Engineering Director for Skyscanner's Japan office.

During my interview process, I had an hour session with Gareth, and since joining the company in February, have had several opportunities to work with him directly.

He is a very kind person, and works hard to take care of both his team and our travelers. It's actually a core part of how we do business: the needs of the traveler come first, and our profit metrics come second.

I'm glad to see people like that be successful.
Agreed. I've been using italics myself. I'm not sure the reason behind the quoting limitations. Just using what I have available.