skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Politifact will generally use the most generous possible reading of what a Democrat says, or the least generous reading of what a Republican says, when determining truth or falsehood.

Take a look at these two stories:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/...

Now, the first story is simply true. Hillary Clinton did attack her husband's mistresses and accusers, and there's a long history of documentation of that. But Politifact labels it "mostly false" because it was never proven to have come directly from her. As if Sidney Blumenthal just took it upon himself to slander Lewinsky as a delusional nymphomaniac.

In the second link, Clinton claims none of her emails were labelled Top Secret. Note the dodge, here. She didn't say, "I didn't send or receive classified information", she said "those emails didn't contain the correct headers". I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest, given that we know she tried desperately to modify the records of the emails once they were discovered, if those headers were simply stripped either before or after the fact. Either way, she is simply not stupid enough to not know what she was doing. But she claims innocence through stupidity, and politifact labels it "mostly true".

What do both of these examples show? That when Hillary walks the line and is careful not to explicitly say anything demonstrably false, while clearly lying in substance, politifact says she's honest. When Trump says something that's substantively true, while not paying attention to specifics, politifact says he's lying.

This is not intellectually honest fact-checking. Letting one candidate play word games and lie while calling out the other for being less careful but telling the truth is not fact-checking, it's shilling.
These firms inject capital into the economy efficiently and effectively, which then allows firms access to the financial resources to develop technologies to apply to "healthcare or general science". Can you think of a better way to accomplish this? Have the state choose? I think we all know how that turns out.
I read the documents released by Snowden. Which leaks are you referring to? Can you point me to any document that suggests the NSA has his friend's emails?
It is one thing to say that publicly but real test with be when NSA will come with all their weapons. May be NSA can say give me all your data and we will do something like s/mohammad/target/g.

The bigotry and utter disrespect for the privacy and freedom of own citizens is the larger problem that is not just Tech industry's issue here.
Antidepressants are a 15B market globally.

That definitely seems like "making bank" to me, specifically considering it is a pretty consolidated space where that value is being shared by a relatively small number of players.

They certainly are not selling them for charitable reasons.
Thanks, this is what I was missing, and seems right in general. I think the old ring buffers I'm remembering just decided that reading out-of-order was a fitting punishment for not reading often enough. After all there is a bit of a race for the read index here...
Totally agree, we drastically overestimate the power of the President. Congress does most of the things Presidential candidates promise to do, and local government rules everyday quality of life issues like criminal justice and education.
> I have no problem with that. I have a problem with them choosing what I can share with my friends, and more generally what people can share with each other.

They're not policing what you share with your friends, just what you can do on their platform. They are under no obligation to provide infinite reach for whatever drivel you want to share.

If you're sitting in a bar sharing racist anecdotes with your friends, that bar has the right to kick you out if they feel like. It's their bar.

If you don't like what Facebook's policies, go share somewhere else. There's even an alt-right social network you'll fit right in on.

> The problem is that they are not open. My only problem is opacity.

They're completely open about it. They've posted multiple stories about how they're addressing this, will provide links to third-party analysis for any flagged stories, and list the criteria for third-party fact-checking. [0]

> Moreover they coordinate with politics, so this has everything to do with the Bill of Rights at this point.

No, it does not. The Bill of Rights restrains what the government can do, it has nothing to do with what individual corporations can do.

Do you also think Smith & Wesson should be required to provide free guns, since the right to bear arms is in the constitution?

[0] http://www.poynter.org/fact-checkers-code-of-principles/
I liked PyCharm a lot when getting into a new company that used Python. Very easy to navigate trough code when you have no clue what is doing what.
"uncritical readership"

I'm guessing you've never worked for a news organization.
One Year of iPad Pro
You don't even need a "database", the naming patterns are very distinctive.
`everything else` really?

To quote a friend: If Russia brought down this election, it's because it was a house of cards to begin with.
This database essentially already exists as part of Facebook and another companies producing social graph data, and in the nodes and interstices of networked communications.
People want to publish in high-impact journals. Aside from name recognition (Nature, Science, New England Journal, etc), impact factor and similar metrics drive where people want to publish.

If you really want to strike at a particular journal or family of journals, you could work to convince academics not to cite articles in those journals. Since all these metrics are some variant of (inward citations)/(publications), usually over a 2-5 year window, this would have a tremendous effect.
Relonch camera uses AI to process your photos, for $99 per month
Going from $0 to $1M? Nearly impossible.

Going from $1M to $2M? Nearly inevitable.
http://www.launchrock.com

Drag and drop page build and no need to setup a server etc
We "switched back" to Microsoft for cloud drop-box-type services and applications. There's a great deal where for the same cost as a premium DropBox subscription you get Microsoft One Drive + Office in the cloud + a license for the desktop office suite. And Outlook email that you can have on your own domain. And it works well.
You are gas lighting.

It is not "opinion" on whether the Pope endorsed Trump. It is unequivocal fact that he did not. Reporting to the contrary is fake news.
I freelanced.

To be clear by 'uncritical' I mean 'gullible' - as in 'uncritical thinking'.
I use instapage.com. They are the least expensive out of the landing page builder solutions with a/b testing out there.

Wix is a way cheaper option.

The cheapest option is probably wordpress. You can buy landing page theme for wordpress on themeforest.net.

Good luck.
It sounds like you've been reading too much fake news. Can you point me to any document that suggests the NSA has his friend's emails?
Facebook Mounts Effort to Limit Tide of Fake News
Why does Northern Virginia get coverage, but not D.C.? I don't really understand the logic there.
What you are doing is fine except that when some fonts have their own flavors of the box-drawing characters. See monofur for an example.
They also offer an "All Products" subscription that lets you use all their various IDEs separately, if you prefer that approach.
> Turns out now we use it so much and I've found that the value is that I can order by phone when I leave work and by the time I get home the food will be arriving at my door.

Does "order by phone" mean mobile app or calling in an order? I would guess app but with Alexa and the other speech recognition tech they have, voice orders doesn't sound that far off either.
Here’s what that new Fed rate increase means for venture-backed startups
I received a free $20 to Amazon Restaurants for buying something on cyber Wednesday, didn't know that was a thing until I received the email. I used it to order pizza from a local joint, because who doesn't like free pizza.

Ordering was interesting, they didn't have the pizza I wanted listed under the pre-made options, so I had to make my own, but there was no option to do half and half and adding additional topping had a confusing interface. The menus do not seem to be optimized for each restaurant the way Doordash is, and you must click on an item to see the price.

Also the food wasn't kept in a thermal bag, like pizza delivery does, so it wasn't piping hot when I received it and the delivery members don't have distinct shirts. I probably won't use it ever again since I prefer Doordash, and one of my friends brother in laws is a cofounder/CTO so I feel a false tie to it.
Haven't they already been doing it for > decade? Oh they just want to shield from competition. nice one
Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims yet people willingly add their names to a public Github repo as a LGBTQIA or POC in tech.
I'm a libertarian, I had no dog in this race, but I LOVE how salty liberals have gotten. Welcome to my last twenty years of frustration with the political process :)

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/808914332625014784
It might be more fun (and possibly more effective) to just build a highly dysfunctional one.

(I inevitably invite anyone with a beef against certain database technologies to suggest some possibilities)
This more of a sales pitch for Codename One rather than an actual article/blog post that has substance
12 is not a power of two though. Is there an easy way to convert to/from binary/dozenal?
Globalization did bring visible growth of wealth to the bottom-of-the-ladder guys like factory workers. Only it did so in places like China, Vietnam, and other manufacture outsourcing destinations.
http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...
Trump workers snigger at the sentiment.
...unless you're working with indexes higher than 3. Or am I missing something?
Can someone explain to me why a religion made by a pedophile-barbarian is somehow tolerated and even defended against "islamophobia" (is e.g. a gay guy phobic for being scared of muslims that given power would throw him from a building or persecute him in some other way at least)?

Their whole ideology (as it basically governs every aspect of life) is crude, vile, barbaric and dangerous. The animosity towards them is well grounded, anyone saying otherwise should read their "holy" scriptures and just analyze how they behave when having majority (muslim countries)
> [...] it will be another 5 to 7 years before I am truly proficient. Just in time to be obsolete. How do I combat this? Better networking? Starting my own business? Consulting?

Judging from how you use it, I think that under the word "obsolete" you mean
something different than how I understand it. Care to clarify?
This is terrible. The world is too complicated to fact check.

For example, "thousands lose their jobs due to minimum wage increase". Is this true or not? Well, some schools of economic thought will think its true, and some will not. Some might say the jobs were lost because there was an increase in automation and some might think the increase in automation was caused by the minimum wage. I truly hope that facebook doesn't try to fact check statements like this.

There is inherent bias in the way we look at the world.

i.e. "Assad bombs his own people" vs "Assad continues the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda"
Although an argument could be made that these two statements are not mutually exclusive, they are saying different things. It is quite possible that one will pass through the fact checker and one will not.

Facebook is such a huge source of information, it makes me very concerned when a select few organizations have the ability to discredit information across the entire site.
Have you tried CLion?
Unfortunately, with firearms registration and no-fly lists, Muslim registries are part of the slope we've set precedent for. A citizen should _never_ have to register with the government to exercise a freedom explicitly granted in the constitution.
What characteristics makes a programming language a "real" programming language?
Right and I have that, but it would be nice to just use IntelliJ Ultimate without sacrificing features in Rider, Webstorm, etc...
Meh. I have prime and keep getting $10 off coupons but here in Minneapolis I don't see anywhere I want to order from. Bitesquad has places that I order from every now and then. If Amazon had a decent network they might entice me in to becoming a restaurants customer... but as it is, it is like the crappy prime video selection.
Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
We could collectively all change our religion on FB to Muslim
Well, to be honest, the title is highly misleading.

Sure, they pledged to refuse to participate in the creation of such database, but that's just one of the things stated in the full pledge. I would emphasize more on the following parts of the pledge:

* to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.
* to implement security and privacy best practices, in particular, for end-to-end encryption to be the default wherever possible.
* If we cannot stop these practices, we will exercise our rights and responsibilities to speak out publicly and engage in responsible whistleblowing without endangering users.
Also, the .ac domain has the expected owner.
Of course they won't. Any tech worker worth hiring would write a general people database, and define 'muslim' as a query parameter.

(With apologies to Nathaniel Borenstein. Also, it's true)
I would (and have) picked the language I already had a deep knowledge of: C#. Other than that, I would pick something that seemed to fit the need of what I'm doing. I'm thinking of creating a licensing as a service product which I would use Elixir/Phoenix because I've heard good things about the performance and I could have many calls coming in.
Have you read the Old Testament? Christianity has plenty of barbarism in it.
Given that these databases already exist, that would be the practical solution.

It's not enough to just vow not to build them; the databases that exist would need to be data-jammed. If everyone is Muslim, then no-one is.
Maybe, but how many transactions get kicked off by a single Google search?
Oh look, Amazon chases another venture like a dog that smells food. So stupid how everyone's always trying to take over the world...
> I really don't see why the alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies can't themselves move in to production and sale of marijuana, once it becomes legal.

That's exactly what I'm saying. The tobacco industry would love to leverage their existing assets into a lateral move into the marijuana industry. But until it's legal, they have to sit by and watch their lunch get eaten by smaller firms with larger risk appetites because they have less to lose if things blow up in their faces. That's what's already happening.
> Hillary Clinton did attack her husband's mistresses and accusers, and there's a long history of documentation of that

> But Politifact labels it "mostly false" because it was never proven to have come directly from her.

These statements are mutually incompatible. There can't be a long history of documentation for something which is proven.

Start your own fact-checker. Your examples just affirm that Politifact is doing it's job correctly.
Sure, but there's a world of difference between volunteering your name to a public statement (knowing that it's public) and having your data harvested without your consent for purposes actively opposed to your own.
What makes you believe that? If you look below the surface, that's far from clear.
Two books in particular have me thinking in this direction... Drift into Failure, by Sidney Dekker, which is about understanding failure in highly complex systems (aircraft, nuclear reactors, etc), and The World Beyond Your Head, by Matthew B. Crawford, which is really a philosophy book, but has substantial criticism of Enlightenment thinking (which includes reductionism, from Descartes/Newton, the basis of the scientific method).

Note that neither of these authors argue that the scientific method is wrong (as some new-agey types do), but rather that it is incomplete, and a poor tool for understanding the real world in many situations.
Then you'd have a registry of Muslims (religion set before event) and dissenters.
A teaching language doesn't have mounds of legacy code constraining its evolution.
Do you not see how these two things are different?
For everyone dismissing this as "too late" and "this data already exists" should consider that this appears to be addressed in the pledge.

> to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.

> Responsibly destroy high-risk data sets and backups
>However, bit.ly links and similar are forever! There is no way to redirect or edit "bit.ly/my_great_freebie" or change "goo.gl/aRgle" to point to a different place. And once you've made such links public, you have no control over where they are re-posted and no idea who might try to use them in the future.

First of all, neither bitly links, nor Dropbox public folders are "forever". Both would die immediately if the company shut down, or pivoted, or merely decided to drop the feature (as Dropbox did exactly now) or change the url scheme and deprecate all the old links after some grace period.

The only thing that would be "forever" would be links on a custom domain you control -- and these only for as long as you remain interested in keeping them up and paying for the domain.
Your comment is slightly abrasive, however, it is worth discussing.

Every Religion has been warped by humans at some point to gain wealth or power, I think Islam has seen the worst of it. What was meant as framework to help people be happy and treat each other with dignity has turned into a destructive force used to justify crimes.
So how much longer till they combine this with drone delivery?

The thrill of having a pizza arrive by drone could justify a hefty premium for a kids birthday party.
i think the pyret syntax is wonderful, personally. it takes a lot of good bits from my two favourite languages, ruby and ocaml, and blends them into a nicely coherent whole. there are a few minor things i'd probably have done differently, but on the whole i find pyret code very pleasant to read.
Meanwhile, they will continue to saturate your feed with ads for fake products... especially counterfeits.
Mosques don't keep track of members. You can go into any Mosque and hang out if you wish.
Can you short those?
Quality Assurance Software Tester looking to improve
Hello,

First of all, I wanna apologize for posting a probably obvious question, but I wanna make sure I get proper advice on this.

I am an experienced Quality Assurance Tester, having tested mainly gaming apps on mobile and Windows PC platforms. I am giving up on testing games, started learning coding, and am looking for something in software testing / automation. My target country to work in are: Nordic countries and Holland/Germany/Switzerland.

As such, I would like to get some feedback regarding sources of where I could look for software companies to apply to.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
Yup, I second that. Lua is much more simpler by comparison. Python is pretty easy as well. You can do lots of stuff with those two alone, not only on desktop/mobile platforms but on embedded devices as well (think eLua, Arduino, Pinguino).
Interesting that I'm seeing this for the first time on the same day that local food delivery company SkipTheDishes was sold to Just Eat for $110M (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/skip-the-dishes-sold...).

Skip is very popular here in Winnipeg since this is where they're headquartered, but always seemed like the underdog in the overall market. Wondering what will become of Skip, and how Just Eat and the others will keep duking it out from here now that Amazon is in the ring too.
01:17:25 -Chris. -I'm all right.
01:17:32 -They took everything. -Kent's tracking system is gone!
01:17:39 How could you build that mirror?!
01:17:50 He lied to us.
01:17:53 It's easy to lie to you, Mitch.
I'm not a great fan of journals, but I really dislike the idea of forbidding people from building on the work of others.
Like the archival of climate data, the gesture changes nothing and the coverage sensationalist.

I archived Holocaust evidence, the Doctor Seuss anthology, and my grandmother's spaghetti recipe. And I pledge to never assassinate kittens or puppies. Why? Because Trump...
To some extent, I agree that Politifact's ratings are bad because they're inherently subjective. Thankfully Facebook's system will allow you to click through to the original article and read the evidence for yourself.

The latest claim is that even Snopes is politically motivated and lying. The amount of gas lighting which the alt-right is doing is absurd.
Well, it seems we'll actually have WebRTC in Safari by "end of 2017". Please please please let it work for iOS :) , that would be HUGE.
Are you comfortable sharing what drugs you have tried? What is your experience with them?
Magic Leap has lost another high-profile executive
> In the end, spaced repetition is not what causes people to memorize things. You can review an object over and over and over......50 times, or a hundred times, and still not remember it.

Ebbinghaus demonstrated that spaced repetition is what causes people to memorize things, using nonsense words for exactly that purpose, to ensure that there was no possibility of any sort of 'clicking' or semantic processes. Just pure memory based on repetition either massed or spaced.
Perhaps `unfun` can be incorporated into this:

http://blog.brownplt.org/2014/04/01/var-vs-yar.html
I just went on Facebook and created an Ad [0] that targets only people "interested in Islam" and living the US, it took 30 seconds.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/NOrGA2N.png

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Edit: Direct link
Interesting reply, it seems you've misconstrued the intent of my post.

Yeah, no. Please do not assume that a reply of mine to one of three replies to my actual request for clarification is some kind of commentary on you.

I agree that culture is something, as you put it, that is kept inside of us.

That isn't at all what I said. I said it is a human artifact and part of it is stuff out in the world and part of it is a thing inside us, which is very different from saying it is "only" inside us, which is what your framing strongly suggests you read it to mean. In which case, it is you who are misconstruing my comments.

My (admittedly anecdotal) experience has been that the South Bay is primarily a work culture.

Thank you for clarifying.
Facebook Details Its New Plan to Combat Fake News Stories
If all of your employees are doing one thing, it's safe to assume you've told them to, even if your fingerprints aren't on the proverbial gun. Your comment is exactly what I'm accusing politifact of: you're being as uncharitable as possible to the claim, ignoring common sense and plain language in order to find a reading of it you can say is false.

Thing is, you're not pretending to be impartial and non-partisan. Nor am I. Politifact is. When Politifact's standard of objectivity is indistinguishable from that of a reasonably intelligent random commenter on the Internet, that's a problem.
$0.190 billion is a trivial amount for Wells Fargo: it amounts to 3.4% of their Q3 2016 profits. They made $5.6 Billion dollars last quarter on $22.3 Billion in revenue. [1]

If an individual commits one count of Social Security fraud they would pay a fine of $10,000 or about 20% of the median household income. [2] (This is an arbitrarily picked form of financial fraud)

If the bank had a proportional punishment they would pay 20% of their annual revenue for systemic fraud, which would be roughly $18 billion dollars.

[1] https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/investor-relations/investme...
[2] https://www.reference.com/government-politics/penalties-comm...

edit: used quarterly instead of annual figure for calculation