skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your trying to suggest? This is objectively fake. The claim (that protesters were bussed to this place to protest against Trump) is objectively, demonstrably, false.
True, but bandwidth still is very expensive for the non-linode VPSs.
I quite like linode and have used them for years but it seems a bit disingenuous to not include competitors like digitalocean[1] and vultr[2] in this comparison. They have very similar pricing.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet
[2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
Looks like their site is using ads from Google, their party will be over soon.

edit: already banned by facebook, that was fast.
Closest thing I can think of is the Emacs interface to the freesmartphone.org (FSO) DBus APIs:

https://github.com/paulfertser/fso-el/wiki

You can always manually send DBus messages to the FSO/oFono daemons, here is an example for oFono:

https://together.jolla.com/question/17992/sending-an-sms-via...

I expect similar things are possible with Android RILs.
> One of them required mental gymnastics of "hidden" rules and exceptions to the rules. There would always be rules that were often forgotten.

Could you elaborate on this? Mathematics, perhaps uniquely among human intellectual endeavours, has no hidden rules. Its rules may be complicated and unintuitive at times, but they can be listed; and whatever follows from these listed rules is true (to be precise: whatever follows from the axioms is true in any model of the axioms), and whatever contradicts them is false, regardless of how natural or un- it may seem.

In particular, I am curious what you mean by "There would always be rules that were often forgotten." Do you mean that you forgot them, or that your teachers forgot them (both of which were eminently believeable!), or that practicing, professional mathematicians forget them? I am sceptical of the last (although plenty of, indeed probably all, professional mathematicians don't need to keep all the rules explicitly in their heads at all times), and, although I am eminently willing to believe the first two, I think that that shows a fault in the teacher, not the subject.
Is there any particular reason why you wouldn't recommend Matrix/Riot today, for someone who is technically proficient?
> Wind energy kills a mere 100 people or so per trillion kWhrs, the majority from falls during maintenance activities

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-ea...
Pff, yeah, as if this was a thing only Americans specifically were susceptible to.

Not to mention doing a sweeping generalisation on 300+ million people.
It isn't just that people aren't critical in their thinking, they just tend to be more critical in their thinking about things that violate their experience (read: things they disagree with) than things that they expect.

For example, are you critical of the floor being solid when you get out of bed? You probably wouldn't spend extra milliseconds contemplating they hardness of the floor. Now let's say you get up and the floor is wet. You might take a moment thinking about what happened, looking up at the ceiling, whether the dog peed, did someone spill water, etc.

That is an extreme example, but many people find it very difficult to critically analyze everything they come in contact with. It helps immensely that things like political opinions are controversial, so we are at least aware of other possibilities, but it is still very difficult to accept something that contradicts what is established in our minds, even when that which is established is wrong. So it isn't just that we need to be critical, it is we must be somewhat critical[0] of even things we believe when there is at least some doubt to their validity.

[0] I actually wouldn't call this being critical, but rather, being open-minded to being incorrect.
There's a lot of music that isn't available on Spotify. You also lose access to that "astounding quantity of music" as soon as you stop paying your monthly fee.
My initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."
Design Inspiration: 3 Mascots and Characters That Set These Brands Apart
As exploitive as it sounds, given that someone had to attack in the first wave at least this seemed to match the rewards with the risk?
It's almost as if there happened some event of global proportions less than 2 weeks ago that was perhaps in great measure directly caused by this phenomenon?
There is nothing at stake. That's the problem.
Standards can quickly become very political.

A good example is UML. In the early days it accommodated everything that was in widespread use at the time, with only a few visual syntax changes. Since then it has been refactored and also bloated with support for many edge cases. Those who use it, typically only use a small subset.
In general, Linode and DigitalOcean have been very competitive in terms of customer satisfaction for VPS.

In this case, Linode offers only 125 Mbps which could be less compared to other cloud providers.

From what I have seen in the startup world around me, small sized companies use AWS/Google/Azure for production systems and tend to use DigitalOcean/Linode for staging / developer environments given they manage their own Devops.
Ask HN: Father of the Computer – Charles Babbage or Alan Turing?
My impression is that Charles Babbage is at best the father of the calculator. It was Alan Turing who deserves the full credit of the state of computing today.
Just out of curiosity, what do you use USB OTG and Android for? Nowadays I seldom hear about it. I can't think of the last time I saw someone use one!
Interesting story, inspired me very much!
No, not 0 either.
To be fair to the article, the origin of the misconception was a single tweet, which I'm not sure really counts as "non-approved" news sources. The second stage of the stories spread was reddit, which I think too isn't really a news source, or may be that's what you mean.
LOL. You guys are killing me. Why all the downvotes? HN crowds seems to be a very serious lot.
From the friendly article: The sheer scale of what’s in front of me belies the fact that Yiwu market’s heyday was in the past – much of this trade is now migrating online, to websites such as Alibaba and Made In China.
After more than two decades as a developer, I have just now begun to realize all the other valuable skills, outside of technology, that I have not developed. And consequently, I've been very hungry for this additional education.

I understand you're looking for IT education, but I would recommend audio books (or language courses). If you haven't done any of these, give some a try:

* If you don't know a second language, try the Pimsleur courses.

* How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

* Getting to Yes, by Bruce Patton, Roger Fisher, and William Ury

* How We Choose to be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People, by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster

* Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics), by Peter Drucker

It's easy to learn the technical things with hands-on time and night time efforts, but sometimes the tech is so much fun that some of us just simply ignore topics that have longer term value and frankly can enable us to really make the most of our technical abilities.
GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX! A LIE!

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But now you have the problem of transporting large quantities of nuclear waste for long time periods, with little tolerance for delays or stoppages.
The funding is provided by the people VIA government. But the government doesn't participate in its administration nor does NASA participate in the execution of the Constitution.

There are A LOT of independent agencies that are owned or otherwise funded by the federal government but they do not participate in governance, and because of that, they are not PART of the federal government.
When I was in grad school an Adobe representative presented at a colloquium, showing us their new-at-the-time content aware photo editing (think removing a person from a photo and filling in the trees/buildings behind them).

He mentioned a project based on predicting marketing/political campaign reactions in things like social media. My hand immediately went up and I asked him what they thought about the ethical implications, and how it could be protected from abuse. "We aren't really thinking about those kinds of things." I'm not surprised to see this line up with the quote in tekacs reply.

I don't trust Adobe, and while this is certainly really neat-o tech, I just don't see its benefits outweighing the huge impact its abuse could precipitate.
"Do not engage in political or economic discussions on HN."
--agreed

"It is not a save space and one should not expect scientific maturity from its readers."
-- these types of sneering comments are a reason why trump won
I was half-kidding with my reply, because a company should realize when there is a bottleneck and address it as long as the resources are available.

But, this isn't always the case, so here's something a dev can do:

- Know basic server administration. Nothing too crazy:

- User roles and permissions setup.

- Database access and setup.

- Webserver access and setup.

- Be the master of your dev environment. If the organization uses virtualization for everything, learn how to manage those virtual machines, or at least, know where to find the config files and where to find the documentation in-case you need to change the config files. Read through the config files so you at least feel confident navigating them.

- Know what happens when code is deployed. Where does it go? Which servers? How to log into those servers to debug issues? Where are the logs? Ask what you'd need to know if you were suddenly put in-charge of the the project as the sole-developer-webmaster type person.

I think if a developer is able to do the above, then their devops team will think more of them and maybe be more willing to help when things aren't working out.
"Fake News"

Yellow Cake? Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
I'm getting an access denied error when trying to subscribe
> SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DON’T MAKE TO-DO LISTS.

Request for disproof: Any successful people here make to-do lists?
I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
Anyone here ever checked in a bug that infected large numbers of users?
The main point of the article is not that scheduling is superior to TODO lists. Instead it is that continually adding to a TODO list is bad and instead making a schedule makes that impossible.

I feel using a TODO list with time estimates would give the benefits from the article was also letting you schedule flexibly as you feel like it. By putting the time estimates in it makes it easier to say no to tasks that don't have to be done.
Here is one more video for you. It is classic Mexican handiwork: http://motherless.com/2338076
The author, not the streaming product.
Care to make rigorous how other interpretations require FTL signaling? For that matter, can you actually rigorously explain what it means for worlds to "branch", or why Born probabilities should be interpreted as though they are probabilities in MWI? Saying "all the possibilities actually happen!" doesn't really explain the correlations we actually observe in any interesting way.
Does SIM card size really matter? I thought that when you get a new phone, the carrier gives you a new SIM; at least that's how it's always worked for me (AT&T)
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GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX! A LIE!!
The NYT seemingly has written a well supported and fact checked story explaining how a verifiably false tweet from a person with few followers spread far and wide.

What exactly is being pushed on the American people?
> Calm down, kid.

Please stop. We don't treat other users this way on Hacker News, and we have to ban accounts that continue like this.
It's not a big step to go from using obviously fakes to sell the idea that fake news must be stopped, to having someone decide if less obvious cases are fake or simply don't fit the agenda.

Censorship of news is always sold as keeping people from being misinformed.
>The headline might as well as be mass propaganda techniques no longer working. HALP!

i read the opposite: the propaganda technology known as "clickbait" has become so widely disseminated that truth or factual information can't compete because it doesn't translate as smoothly.

the truth and the facts are always a bit less streamlined, and are always presented in a slightly more complex way-- slightly more cognitively expensive. the human mind takes the easy path whenever it can.
Or, it might be the exact opposite: For a building the engineer and builders are required to take personal responsibility.

Not so for software.

Perhaps if you change that software might change.
> usually is sincerely trying to get at the truth

Good intentions are neither good outcomes nor good conduct. Incentives seem to trump intentions, and seem poorly aligned with the public interest.

Is this WP version[1] less bad than the LA Times version[2]? Yes. And it's in the entertainment, not the business section. But they still published it. And to be fair to the author, "Hollywood" is good at this game, and regularly suckers some journalist, sometimes quite senior ones, into doing one of these. But they still published it. And to be fair to Hollywood, a former Obama White House official described them as "extremists are people who talk only among themselves". But they still published it.

"Pravda on the Potomac" and "it usually is sincerely trying to get at the truth", do not seem necessarily inconsistent observations.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/with-chan...
[2] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20161...
You're right. I think the article might be casting doubt on the sources after reddit which carried the story, but I feel the main issue the article addresses is false news stories, not the credibility of news sources, which Jerry2 seems to be talking about.
It's called a "scoop". There's nothing particular novel or unusual about the way a story proliferates through media outlets. The nature of online news and media has simply made the process more visible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw&t=2m34s

"Wife" sounds exactly the same in both places, so all this did was copy the exact waveform from one point to another. Nothing is being synthesized. If this is all this app can do, it would be quicker and easier to do this manually.

That little "guh" noise at the beginning of the first "wife" could also be manually cleaned up and pitch/formant shifted to sound more natural with respect to its position in the sentence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw&t=3m54s

The word "Jordan" is not being synthesized. He was recorded saying "Jordan" beforehand for this insertion demo and they're trying to play it off as though this was synthesized on the fly. This is all a scripted performance. Jordan is phoning in his task of feigning surprise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw&t=4m40s

Here they double down on their lie. The phrase "three times" was clearly prerecorded.

If Adobe wanted to put the bare minimum effort into trying to convince anyone this was a real product that exists and is capable of synthesizing speech on the fly, then they'd toss a beachball around the audience and have them shout out words to type.

This is a fraudulent demonstration of a nonexistent product and an audacious insult to everyone's intelligence. Adobe is falsely taking credit and getting endless free publicity for a breakthrough they had no hand in. They are stealing the hype recently generated by Google WaveNet and praying they'll have a real product ready by whatever deadline they've set for themselves.
France has had a tidal generator for 50 years, where have you been? I do recognize that model is limited, and other sites are few and fraught with the same issues as dams: natural flow is better for the ecosystem in those locations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station

Also [citations needed].
How is it untrue? What people, who did not reach an agreement with Walmart to work together, are working at Walmart?

Why would Walmart even want to have workers who walked away from the table during negation, of whom they have no employment agreement and are technically not even employees, working for them? That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

Even ignoring the sketchy legal ground, it seems like a huge liability to have what are effectively random people walking in off the street doing work at your store. I am still dubious that Walmart, or any other business for that matter, would allow this.
>What exactly is being pushed on the American people?'

what about that time the NYT pushed the iraq war

or that time they pushed hillary clinton

or that time they pushed (insert whatever their paid PR "article" of the second is pushing for)
Will it be able to do something like "send me articles about Ruby on Rails, but only if the author hates Rails"? :)
I have an hypothesis that I believe predicts very accurately how information will be treated in this segment of the American political right-wing (hard to define, but Fox and the WSJ editorial page to the right-wing blogosphere to talk radio to it's many participants on social media). I invite you to test it out:

The NY Times is asking the wrong question; they implicitly acknowledge that it lacks predictive power: The accuracy of information does not predict if it will spread and be believed.

* Ideology predicts it. If information matches their ideology, they spread it and believe it. If not, they don't. I believe this is now taken to its extreme: Ideological compliance, not factual accuracy, determines 99% of 'truth'. No matter how factually unsound, they will believe ideologically 'true' information. And no matter how factually sound, they will deny and attack ideologically 'false' material. Consider climate change, as an easy example - factually undeniable but ideologically unsound. It's a full-fledged ideological movement, which seems an anachronism in this educated age, happening right under our noses..

I've been reading about Medieval philosoph, and I recognized the pattern. It's a per-Enlightenment approach, placing ideology (back then it was mainly religious dogma rather than political) ahead of reason as the test for truth. Note also the attacks on sources of factual credibility, such as serious journalists, intellectuals, academia, scientists, education in general, etc. Those sources provide factual accuracy, but ideological 'falsehoods'. Again, it's in some ways similar to what was experienced in the Enlightenment. Finally, note that leaders of this political group prove themselves not by knowledge, leadership, good decisions, etc., but by saying things that are both crazy by normal standards but acceptable by the ideology's standards - their and their followers priority is that they prove their commitment to the ideology.

....

Finally a couple caveats: 1) In a way it might seem obvious because everyone tends to believe things that meet their preconceived notions, but this is far more extreme - usually accuracy does have a large influence on people, including probably most people reading this. 2) Yes, some people behave similarly on other parts of the political spectrum, but the reality is that in 2016 there is relatively very large and very powerful movement on the right - IMHO it just elected a President and has corrupted major U.S. institutions such as the FBI.
I both realized:

1) Trump had a significant chance of winning because of a disgruntled American public voting against establishment candidates (the same reason Obama himself was elected in 2008).

2) There was "fake news" before the election.

Indeed, I know a number of additional things.

3) Right now there is a crisis in faith and credibility in the US domestic news. The reason for this is that the official narrative across the media industry - much of it literally state propaganda - has been consistently proving hallow and unreliable. People are continually confused, and their attentions are jerked around as the media needs the public to be outraged/motivated/mobilized at each subsequent juncture.

4) There is huge amounts of fake news and misinformation INSIDE the industry. If you want to focus on Trump rather than national security and propaganda, take the ubiquity of the "search terms spike for how to move to Canada after Trump won primaries" with absolutely no coverage giving the context that Canada had on that day finally passed a long-in-revision piece of legislature revising US-to-Canada patriation and such search terms would have spiked regardless of the candidate in the US primaries. (Trump is not and never was a candidate for president that I would endorse.)

5) The "fake news" surge is a grasp by establish monopolistic forms of misinformation distribution to maintain their domination and credibility as sole sources.
Prefer anything but Google Nexus because of recent "digital execution by Google" news, I can at lease put the pics, videos and some other data are on SD.
In the absence of real news fake news will flourish.
(turns out nature does indeed abhor a vacuum).

Censorship isn't a workable answer. The answer is for mainstream media to attempt to regain credibility by providing non-biased reporting and leaving off the propaganda.

This isn't an ideological statement either so please don't misconstrue. If you prefer, think of it as a strategy.

BTW.. I'm personally am sick of the "fake news" whining. I suspect I'm not alone in this. If it was a problem it was a problem a year ago.

I generally don't agree with Zuckerburg but in this case I do. Fake news didn't win the election. So please just stop it. Threatening forms of censorship isn't going to win more respect. Try behaving respectfully.

_Last article about fake news I intend to ever read or comment on_
The Coming Revolution in Email Design
>Supposedly the 60Hz or 50Hz hum in recordings can be correlated with variations in the electrical grid frequency.

That's pretty cool. I wonder if this has ever been used to track down someone.
The initiative was I-732, CarbonWA (https://yeson732.org/). The torpedoing I was referring to: "recent comments by Bauman compelled us to publicly endorse the Alliance and voice our opposition to I-732" http://fusewashington.org/why_we_cant_support_carbon_washing...
This software is specifically mentioned to work at the phoneme level, not the word level. So it shouldn't be any harder to mimic words that weren't in the original corpus, as long as the phonemes are known.
I found the Github page to be a better source in this case: https://imatge-upc.github.io/detection-2016-nipsws/
It's a combination of 2 very primitive (and hence innate) human instinct - Anxiety and Pleasure.

Anxiety - It's also called FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). If all our friends and family are on Facebook and we don't constantly login and read the feeds, we feel like we are "missing out" on all the fun and exicting stuff going on around us.

Pleasure - Social Media feeds our ego and give us pleasure when we post pics and "updates" and then few minutes later, a RED Icon notification pops up showing that so and so liked your post, commented on it etc. There is a reason why Facebook has no DISLIKE button. Don't forget 'Zuck' is a Psychology Minor.

Related Reading: "What is driving people to constantly check in with social media" => https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewired-the-psychology-...
I'm confused by the mention of "refuses to look at the disinformation activities of his fatherland"... Peter Pomerantsev was born in Russia so I think you mean that he is too critical of their nouveau-agitprop techniques.

I don't love all the author's work, but it's hard to claim he doesn't know about modern disinformation or hasn't suggested that both sides do it.

https://pando.com/2015/05/17/neocons-2-0-the-problem-with-pe...