skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "If we want to have healthy democracy, it's up to all of us to figure out how to get every citizen to consume factual information and let them know when they're being lied to."

What do you do when the people don't actually care? IMO people don't want their views challenged. They're happier when they accept stuff they agree with and can get up on their high horse about stuff they disagree with (signing the odd petition or two). I've been shocked by people I know who are very well educated that don't know about major news stories, even ones that effect the field they're in. And when I explain the story to them, they don't care.
Hideo Kojima keeps getting proved right:

But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second.
Preserved in all its triteness.
Never fading, always accessible.
The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths.
You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result.
All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt.
The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum.
They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.
The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh.
No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.
Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
Not sure if Norton has the incentives to produce an unbiased estimate. And calling this a study might be overkill, it looks more like a brochure.
Who we? Me and my circle like the living here.
Oakland Fire Was a Rare Mass Casualty Blaze. Fire Codes Help Explain Why
> This is one of the sweeping generalizations mentioned

If women's studies teach one thing, does it matter if some feminists believe another? - Their opinions haven't influenced the undergraduate courses.

The obvious reply is "If any statement about feminism require all self-described feminists to be compliant, then there is no such thing as feminism".
Indeed. Fake news sarts at the top. From today's Mail:

"Now for Italexit! Italian Prime Minister resigns after EU referendum loss"
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/805670033875726336

.. except that the referendum has nothing to do with the EU, it was about internal constitutional change, and Italy is no closer to leaving the EU.

People read the Mail and Express because they don't care about whether their news is reliable, reasonable or democratic.
> Any proof it was a "Republican?"

Yes. His party registration.
https://voterrecords.com/voter/49988317/edgar-welch
Similarly, one is about flying in a controlled manner that is comfortable for passengers.

The other was basically a giant pipe bomb.
Why CAMP Technology Will Solve All Your Cloud Problems
Is it just me that thinks the title is wrong ?
I think networking is about concurrency rather than parallelism and parallelism is merely a resource that can be used when your code was written with concurrency in mind.
Man Motivated by Online Conspiracy Theory Arrested in Washington Gunfire
The point being most users are not power users. They just want stuff that they can get to work in 5 mins after a quick download. That's what a lot of geeks that have geeky solutions don't get. No one wants to do anything, they just want their cake for free preferably and they will pay money to eat it.
A Warning for Americans from a Member of Pussy Riot
Easiest way to install Node.js on Ubuntu
> Alt-media is believed because it resonates with the overall feeling people get from the news, which is why the times had to do a mea culpa on the election because they lied so much that after Clinton lost even their base knew that they were just making shit up with no regard to reality which is why Trump won because proper defenses couldn't be put in place because the NYT was blatantly lying to everyone about Trump's chances in hopes that people would just believe Hillary was going to win and stay home.

I hate to sound like Grammar Clippy, but: consider using more than one comma or breaking all those subclauses into separate sentences.
For those interested in ADSB#, I believe it was renamed ADSB Spy and is now included with SDR# available at airspy.com.

SDR# has a bit of a messy history and at one time was completely open source but was later closed after some dispute between the developers (to the best of my knowledge).

If you look hard enough you can still find the source code of the older versions of SDR# and ADSB# which is handy if you want to learn how they work, although its all C# .NET and there is some wild stuff going on to try and squeeze enough performance out of the code. This is where I started learning though being a .NET developer, and from there moved on to GNU Radio and now learning C++.

Fascinating subject.
The document package contained a document not available to the NSA commission but to some foreign affairs commission. Only very few people have access to documents of both commissions.

The more interesting part is: this leak was completely useless. Although the documents are not for the public, they're also not rated as a secret. This means that every politician with access is allowed to tell the press about it, only publishing is not allowed. As we have a useful opposition in Germany there was nothing new in the documents...
> 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
Thanks!

Yes, a good text editor helps a lot, I use PHPStorm, which is the best IDE to use for PHP. But there are times when you just scan code like diffs or what not, then it helps. Or search/grep for that matter.

I type on a Swedish QWERTY keyboard layout, then you are used to use ALT-Gr for almost all special characters when coding, but I understand if you are on a US QWERTY then it can be a nuisance. Personally I find And ALT-Gr is easier to use then SHIFT.

US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_States-NoAltGr....

SE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Sweden.svg
People aren't rational. We're riddled with cognitive biases and bugs, and prone to addictive/self-destructive behavior. This is true whether or not you think people are "responsible" for these flaws, whatever that means to you.

We should be talking about how our media, including the social kind, can best convey useful, accurate information and stimulate critical thinking. Throwing up our hands and blaming people for being manipulated by algorithms that are basically designed to put them in "bubbles" simply isn't constructive.
Please be careful when running strings, if possible, don't, as it can be used as an attack surface. Just take a look at CVE-2014-8485 if you need clarification.
No, not directly. DeepMind Lab is a 3D environment that can be highly customized -- looks like its built on an old Quake engine. Their pitch seems to include a lot of real world task simulation. OpenAI Universe is made to sandbox and emulate existing PC software being used with mouse and keybaord input.

At least, that's my non-expert understanding.
Minecraft Hour of Code Tutorials
I'm kind of surprised that the interaction between bonkers US conspiracy politics and actual shootings is so _low_. It's as if the beliefs have a sort of ritual status that "everybody knows" they're not expected to act on.
Computerphile is great (but too domain-specific probably)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/playlists

Steven Levy on his seminal Hackers
(you could talk about tinkering vs "proper" engineering, those kinds of cultural differences)
https://youtu.be/w_jwcCseDk0
Yeah... it's just a matter of time until something like this will have a whistleblower shoot himself in the foot :-/
The title of the post says My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive ...
Well soviet nuclear power obviously isn't, which is about the only expensive thing they ever did.
Technically, you can be arrested and charged with federal possession of a schedule one drug if you have any amount of marijuana in any state, including those states which have made it legal under state law. That's potentially a year in the federal pen.

State legalization of marijuana just means you can't be prosecuted under state law.
Media is the filter bubble :-)
I did a Show HN for Resumonk back in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934370

I was in college then and found making a well-formatted resume a huge pain when I was applying for internships. I met my Co-Founder also via that particular post and went full time on it after passing out of college.

We are bootstrapped, pay ourselves well and work remotely. Not sure if that qualifies as a 'big' success, but we receive these kind of comments from our users that make us super happy - https://www.resumonk.com/testimonials

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030863
Aren't you thinking about Deepwater Horizon, the BP platformk oilspill - not Hurrican Katrina?
Inability to distinguish between easy to use and overly complicated app to use is a disaster too.
> My online shopping recommends groceries for me based on my past purchases. If I was to contract scurvy because it keeps recommending donuts instead of orange juice who is ultimately responsible?

If your online shopping kept erroneously labelling the donuts as 'low fat and sugar and high in vitamin C' who would be responsible?
security is where the feds should have been involved, the kremlin didn't know for quite a long time. and had they done the safety procedure it might not have happened.
Are 9/10 and 99% the same number to you?

Would you describe a random number generator outputting 5 when picking between 1 and 10 as "very rare"?

1/10 != 1/100 != "very rare"
Haven't checked how you're doing responsive layout but it's not working on FF mobile on my device, just FYI.
> How is this different from news sites?

I thought that was very clear from reading the article. FB tailors the feed to each user making sure that they don't see things that they may not like. In contrast to that, news sites cater to large segments of the population and they have to in order to be economically successful. The result is that news sites will always present us with some amount of material that is contrary to our personal world view.
'Plastic' Bags Made of Potato and Tapioca – & become animal food on disposal
Yung baby knows how to dab
> Stealing fingerprint requires access to your fingerprint in the first place.

This is not as difficult as some might think. We leave them all over our devices for example, but physical access is not even necessary. Jan Krissler managed to get the fingerprint of the German defense minister 2 years ago using only photos of her.
Big Tablets are Coming
> This sort of thing is fascinating to me. I think that somehow, humanity needs to transition to a political structure where cities are the primary unit of governance, rather than nations. That won't happen quickly or soon, but someday...

> More immediately, it's becoming increasingly clear that the "polarization" that we're seeing in U.S. politics isn't really between left and right or Ds and Rs. It's between the urban and rural. I'd love to see a version of this that drew boundaries between urban centres and the countryside. That would give us a way to start thinking about how to craft policy that recognizes the differences between them.

Well rural-urban differentiation is certainly not something new. Marin Držić, a Croatian renaissance playwright, and his novella "Novela od Stanca" comes to mind since it was in my reading materials in high school..

The story takes place on a carnival night when the old peasant Stanca comes from the hinterland to the city of Dubrovnik to sell his wares where he rests at the fountain. There he gets made fun of by the youth who assure him that fairies will come and rejuvenate him. The fairies are ofcourse masked carnival goers who paint his face black with soot and trick him from his goats and cheese he wanted to sell. He points out the nuances in the mentality of the city and the village and other cultural differences be it in speech, mannerisms, thinking or expectations.

But to get to my point, the urban-rural conflict is certainly not something new. It's probably present since the first cities and it's more got to do with ingroup-outgroup mentality than anything else. Crafting specific policy in that sense which explicitly recognizes the percieved differences would certainly not be wise and would possibly be ridden with fallacies. Also one could argue that it already is implicitly recognized which brings its own set of questions..
Show HN: Naked domain to www redirector service with TLS and IPv6 support
On the other hand this comment from the same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917
> You are exhibiting the Just World fallacy. It makes you uncomfortable to believe... so you shield yourself...

This is bulverism. You haven't presented evidence that tw04 is wrong. You've just assumed they're wrong, and presented a condescending explanation for why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism

And as they said, you're not actually disagreeing with them.
I've got multiple thoughts about this story, but the biggest one is that Robin Raphel answered FBI questions for quite a while BEFORE thinking that she should get a lawyer.

For anyone who's not as politically connected as she is (say, if you're Martha Stewart, or - God help you - a mere mortal like any of us), this is a sure fire way to end up locked in a cage. ...and make no mistake: if you read the article carefully, it's clear that the one thing that kept her out of jail is the fact that she was heavily connected to DC elites and worked a campaign of back-channel pressure.

Never, ever, EVER answer police or FBI questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Finland's Fake Austerity
Oh, there are plenty of examples of traditional fossil fuels failing due to human error or just being built in really stupid locations.

But I was specifically referring to the idea that Katrina was completely different as there was no human error involved in there.
Could someone please explain for the uninitiated what lock-free actually means and why it matters.

After reading http://www.drdobbs.com/lock-free-data-structures/184401865 i got this:

* Normal locking means that the process which holds the lock can hold it arbitrarily long thereby locking out all other processes. Also a live-lock and dead-lock can occur if there is a conflict between processes which try to acquire the same set of resources but cannot acquire all of them at once.

* Wait-free means that no algorithm working with the data structure will be delayed arbitrarily. This is pretty strong. A simple example would be a ring-buffer with a single reader and writer.

* Lock-free means that no process can block the resource for longer than it takes to read/write it. There will always be at least one process that can make progress while the others may have to wait (weaker than wait-free, but stronger than ordinary locked).

Normal processes on most operating systems can be interrupted at any instruction. This would make it impossible to carry out a multiple-instruction sequence to lock-modify-unlock the data structure because it could leave the data structure locked. Does this in turn mean that there must be a "commit" instruction that is uninterruptible?
I'd be curious to see whether the network used has similar issues to the ones explored here:

http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling

for recognizing ImageNet images.
> Be aware with Unifi gear there is no onboard configuration or UI beyond busybox shell via SSH and a basic command line tool.

This used to be the case, they now have a app for Android and iOS which will setup and manage APs even without a controller.

I believe you loose some of the functionality, like captive portals on guest networks, but 99.9% of people don't need these things.
Isn't it up to the viewer not the publisher to decide what is trustworthy?

In theory, yes. In practice, a lot of people fail badly, to the point major contemporary decisions are now driven by intentionally false or heavily skewed information. That’s a big problem.

Perhaps when major media get so many real stories about democracy wrong and the alt media get them right it's time to stop trusting the people getting things wrong and start trusting the people getting things right.

Here in the Czech Republic the alt media spread lies, hatred and propaganda, with no regard for the society. The state-owned and sane private media aren’t perfect, but are much better.
Show HN: #SkinDetector- Detects Human Skin from Image
> FB tailors the feed to each user making sure that they don't see things that they may not like

To be honest, they do a really terrible job at this. No matter how many times I flag the Kardashian-story-of-the-week as offensive or inappropriate, they keep showing up in the news feed.
This. The US-centric bias (which, even worse, seems to reflect the bias of Mark Z.) of FB is ridiculous
What is data science?
> When you publish articles saying that the support of a candidate is more important than reporting the truth

When did they do that?
Ansible Playbook for Ruby on Rails Deployment
Android is hard – but I did it (feedback welcome)
When you work for free it's not just you who suffers. You undermine all your colleagues by comparison. You contribute to the exclusion of people from other backgrounds (older people, parents, people who can't afford reliable connections at home) who might not be able to make themselves available the way you do.

If you have meaningful ownership (not just a handful of probably-worthless stock options) then by all means work as much as you like. But if you're an employee then it's not as simple as just being your choice, you're forcing your colleagues into a race to the bottom. There's a good reason we have laws about e.g. unpaid overtime.
By easier I mean there's a good tutorial and a low barrier of entry (you can learn to type proofs in the browser). When a couple years ago I decided to teach myself coq, I very quickly gave up, because there just wasn't any good entry-level resource available online.
> My primary interest has always been the psychology of belief. Partly religious belief, and ideology as a sub-category of religious belief. One of Jung’s propositions was that whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods. In a sophisticated religious system, there is a positive and negative polarity. Ideologies simplify that polarity and, in doing so, demonize and oversimplify.

I'll always use an excuse to link Scott Atran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijmBd69878

https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-wo...

(and before we get into the Sam Harris/Scott Atran debacle - I think it's largely irrelevant to the insight you can draw from Atran's work)
Not all people who don't hear well have a problem with balance. Of course because the mechanism for the balance sense is co-located with the hearing sense in the vestibular organ, medical difficulties in the vestibular organ often affect both senses. But this is not always the case.
A more subtle way to communicate with the mother ship would be to ship an update that makes the CPU leak some desired information. For example change how some specific cryptographic operation works under certain conditions to make it possible for eavesdropper to break the encryption. Or just make some funny things with memory and make certain information available to be retrieved via web browser when user visits malicious page.
Well, if theyre ~20 right now, and don't want to have kids until their 30s, that sounds about right
Himself, that's exactly what he's saying.
Why didn't Google make Chromebooks a priority this holiday season?
Take the number of baseline gigawatts produced by nuclear over the last x years, for any value of x you care to pick. Divide by the total cost over the same period (under the same safety standards, or equivalently the same price per person killed - falling off a roof installing a solar panel can kill you just as dead as radiation can). Compare to any other power source you care to pick.

Nuclear power is cheap.
A fast image processing library with low memory needs
Any question ending with '..., okay' is asking for permission.

I (as a parent of 2 very easy kids) always avoid those type of permission-asking questions when presenting choice. Instead I offer, not ask: "You can wear the green or the red. What do you choose?"
Maybe I'm little dense, I'm unsure why this is at -2 right now. Useless/unhelpful remark (sorry) or did I misinterpret the thread?
Being Deaf myself I add that Deaf people often «read» people. I imagine that Lee just reads his opponents - for example the way how one swings the racket can be perceived much earlier than the sound of the ball hitting the racket.
No problem :)

(PS. gia-web looks interesting)
the UI is really bad.
Idea is great from Microsoft but the execution leaves alot to be desired. I hope MS fixes this because I kinda like this service and can see myself using it.
The spec for DNS really should get expanded to allow CNAME records for the root domain
The University of Twente SDR is pretty neat too:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
For a OpenGL interception keeping up with modern OpenGL APIs use apitrace: https://apitrace.github.io/
GBPUSD: Eyes Further Upside on Bull Pressure
There's a bunch of things like that in production! Most, if not all, were learned the hard way.

For example, camera cards and offloading them into a computer. There's a specific sequence which reveals where people got burned on each step.

This is what you do with Alexa for example. You get an unlocked card from assistant which you put into the camera. You go to either quick erase or full erase (format) on camera and then you have to press two buttons simultaneously on camera to OK the erase, like launching nukes. Then you get some red gaffer tape and write down the cards number (A016 for example) and tape it OVER the flapping gate cover of the card on the camera. Once you're done with the card, it's full or whatever, you take it out, lock the writing lock on it, put it in its plastic sleeve and tape shut that sleeve with that piece of red tape with number on it. If no sleeve, tape goes over the card. Then you give the card to your assistant or DIT or whoever is in charge of offloading on your set. He offloads the card, removes the tape, releases the lock and gives it back to you as ready to use. There are multiple cards like that in circulation at any given time.
Did I miss it in the article where "big tablets" actually liberate the "forgotten worker" from the shared work space? How does that work? :)
Is this just a hosting solution for Jupyter Notebooks? Or does it add something to the standard Jupyter Notebooks?
The SMETS1 and SMETS2 smart meters that you will be getting soon will have ZigBee.... but secured and tied down so although you will be able to sniff the comms... everything will be encrypted.

...We're far too privacy and security conscious in the UK to allow plaintext personal data go over the airwaves...
It's not amazing at all :) I still struggle to find a reason why should I use dropbox over ftp or any other file repository service. I guess marketing and creating artificial buzz played big role in their success.
I am very interested in the progression of societal intervention in parenting. I, like many others I'm sure, was beaten occasionally as a child. It was not done maliciously or for pleasure, but as a learning aid. Strangely, I learnt pretty quick.

I get that people don't approve these days, and I know it's almost impossible to draw a legal line on when spanking is discipline and when it's abuse. I'm not sold that I agree on the party line that it's an inherently bad thing though. Just a tool that can be misused. I doubt I'll be having kids though - so it's a problem I won't need to deal with.