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As the app is a hybrid app, ready for its release only on Android platform, I am uncertain on how many will actually try it out when posted in Show HN. What do you think?
>The former porn star/professional escort that David Mikkelson divorced his wife to marry is now an administrator at Snopes

She now works as an admin for Snopes. Read the entire comment before kneejerk replying champ
> I've never seen anyone give a good reason why Snopes should be trusted.

Their impressive library of detailed articles in where they factually report on myths and conspiracy theories?
AFAICT getting through med school mainly requires the ability to memorize a ton of random facts and a willingness to defer to authority and put up with a boat load of bullshit. The ability to actually think critically (which is part of my definition of "smart") is not only not a requirement, it can be a distinct disadvantage.
They also launched their reputation by picking on low hanging fruit. Debunking the idea that the towers were taken down on 9/11 with lasers or that Michael Jackson is still alive is not hard.

Now they are into very fuzzy realms where they are going to have to fact check claims that are plausible. That's hard work. You have to actually... uhh... check the actual claims.

Nobody really fact checks anymore because it's damn expensive. Unless someone gives them a budget for real gumshoe work, Snopes will just end up applying a bunch of political bias filters and lazy heuristics. Facebook could get that with deep learning so I'm not sure why they'd be interested.
Why does it throw all their journalistic credibility into question? When I consult Snopes, I care about the predictive power of the the information they share, ie whether it will inform me accurately enough to guess where the story will go. I use it for additional data points rather than to form a conclusion, although I appreciate the thoroughness when they go to the trouble of exploring historical context etc.

So the founder of Snopes may be financially dishonest and driven by sex thrills...but this doesn't invalidate their research on external questions. It's not like I looked to them for moral guidance about, well, anything.
+1 for 2001. Watching it for the first time is a transcendent experience.
No, you dont have to click any bells.

In order to watch videos from creators you subscribe to you need to ... view your SUBSCRIPTION page. But people are mostly brainless sheep clicking randomly on the shiny, and "subscribing" to them mean liking something double plus good.

What all the 10m sub assholes are crying about is Google no longer pushing their shit into peoples recommendations. Thats what Subscription is for, why recommend something you already subscribed to?
The anthropic principle goes the other way. It says that if the questions about existence are being asked, then we don't need further explanation of the lucky die roll.
My daughter does the same. And I'm glad because she also likes my little ponies, and for some reason there are a lot of adult my little pony spinoff videos. I saw her watching one where the ponies were making out (restricted mode on). So opening gift videos are awesome!
>>Lost was all a communal dream while everyone on the flight died together.

Noooooooo!!!. You've just spoiled it for me. No I'll never work up the courage to watch the series. I've tried watching the first episode several times but I just find it so boring. It looked like a good TV series and really wanted to like it but I just could not get through the first one. I found some of the characters obnoxious. Now you've ruined it for me. Hope you are happy. :)
ISPs in those countries would already have that information, so if you're in such a regime Google will not add any extra concerns in that regard.

Not to mention that Signal does actually work if you tunnel it over Tor (you have to root your phone and force everything through it). So if someone was _really_ worried they could use Tor as well.

You're still spreading FUD.
Accept the VC funding!

From pg: "If someone makes you an acceptable offer, take it. If you have multiple incompatible offers, take the best. Don't reject an acceptable offer in the hope of getting a better one in the future." [1]

And hey, you might be able to convince those YC partners to advise you without going through the program.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/fr.html
1. It's from 2006.
2. Why is it the reader's responsibility to watch every single film to be released, ever?
Seems like this could get pretty annoying with false positives... but awesome idea nonetheless.
It's a hit piece, but then so is the Daily Mail article, and the DM has been a scandal sheet for most of its history.
Oh, interesting. Eclipse has a similar feature called Mylyn, which allowed you to associate contexts with tasks - so, for instance, if you were working on a feature and had to quickly switch over to working on a priority bug, you could have different sets of open files for each of those tasks.

http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/

A quick Google doesn't reveal any link between the projects, but I do wonder if Mylyn was inspired directly by the Remembrance Agent project.
>There's also some fun stuff about people physically carrying information (this also happens in short story "Johnny Mnemonic"). For a world where there's a highly connected, super fast worldwide computer network available, people sure travel around a lot.

Sneakernet isn't an irrelevant concept in any sort of context where data transferred through a computer network can be intercepted.
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Navier-Stokes. Always had a thing for fluid mechanics.
When you say everyone discriminates... Do you mean based on ethnicity and gender? Mind mentioning where you live and your ethnicity and gender?
The first season of Law & Order is delightfully full of these sorts of anachronisms. My favorite is when they bum quarters off passerersby to make a call on a pay phone. This horrible plot device, the phone call, is so entrenched in their writing, they've brought it fully up to date in SVU with everyone carrying iPhones.
Wrong about Lost... In fact the whole point of the final was that the stuff on The Island was real, and it was the most important time in all of their lives. Which is why they all end up together in a sort of timeless purgatory, even though they died many years apart.
It is near-majority user input error, wow (sort by date, top comment sorting is disingenuous). I've argued for bayesian analysis of advertisement CTR and user-error for years, but this is beyond any model that I argue for.

On my tablets it looks like you have to swipe the related videos to the bottom then you have a comment section. So it's in the right area for how kids navigate youtube.
Don't worry, the spoiler is wrong. Just don't read my other post...
Memorization skills are g-loaded and hence correlated with other g-loaded measures, like critical thinking.

I'd even put "willingness to put up with BS for an eventual reward" in that category, see marshmallow studies and e.g. http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20080910/delayed-gratificati...
I'm looking at hosting my own paperwork to replace Evernote:

https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork

I've been using Evernote since I first used the PalmPre app (they probably have the highest platform support out of any app), but with the recent price changes, I'm not sure if they'll be around for much longer. If I'm going to pay for something, I might as well have control of the data too.
I have a relative who is a TV news reporter. I have personal acquaintances who have done live TV interviews, and I have done a couple of those myself (on Fox News). Does that count?

And what exactly is it about Carson's background that makes you rate his performance as "amazing"? He seemed amazingly bad to me. I've even watched some of Carson's performances as a motivational speaker before he got into politics and he still seemed to me like (how shall I put this?) not the brightest light in the firmament.
FYI, you mean 21st century: the 20th century is the 1900s :)
The name made me think it was maybe some kind of weird Amazon Prime service for sex toys and stuff like that.
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Principally? Reliance on cloud service origins without TLS support. Amazon still has some from acquisitions, for example.
I learnt from Popper that the facts are theory - laden and from Feynman that science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

This whole attempt to control the discourse is doomed. There's no such thing as objectivity - ones understanding of the world is shaped by one's experiences and who one is, and that's true for institutions too.

Character matters for an editorial institution, as does form. Snopes built its reputation one way, and became something quite different. And yet they have been granted a role of high influence by Facebook and thus it's in the spirit of good journalism to look into the extent to which they deserve this influence, and the character of the people involved does matter.

One could say that the Mail also isn't a globalist paper and so that naturally sets their perspective against Snopes.
Of course. My point was that for a brief period of time, you could give Gibson the benefit of an accidental retcon; "ah, so the sky was a dark shade of blue, that works". As opposed to "uh, NO INPUT?".
I feel like this is a common misconception amongst some physicists. Lorentz invariance doesn't "appear naturally" in modern theories depending on how you develop it. Usually, one chooses a lagrangian that yields a lorentz invariant action and so all physical laws and thus solutions are lorentz invariant consequently. Lorentz invariance is a fundamental assumption...upheld by experiment. Those theories will then admit solutions (usually linearized ones (read quantized)) that appear as waves.
Fun fact: the "Zen music" from Children of Men is a track by Aphex Twin [1] with a Creative Commons-licensed sound effect [2] dubbed over it. This got quite a bit of attention at the time (e.g, [3]), as it was one of the first documented instances of a major film using CC assets.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltLOrgnfW9w

[2]: https://www.freesound.org/people/thanvannispen/sounds/9432/

[3]: https://creativecommons.org/2007/01/17/freesound-sample-in-c...
Unless you are in a paired-programming situation most coding is done by one person sitting alone. I would never accept a job doing paired-programming. I want to be alone at my keyboard working, uninterrupted, with total silence 90% of my day. My point was that authors do the same thing, by sitting alone typing 90% of the time. However I do agree 10% of the time you need to be communicating with other developers and sharing ideas, when for example a novelist wouldn't be doing that. However there is nothing about communication that requires face-to-face meetings. Actually as technology gets better and better this will become MORE true not less true in the future. However the one thing missing is a good virtual shared whiteboard, but I guess that's just because I don't have one of those stylus boards, because I think with those you can do virtual whiteboards.
Given that he spent the entire paragraph talking about how younger people wouldn't know what that passage refers to, presumably yes, he does.
It's moving moment, but what I remember about it is how the rug is immediately yanked out from under it.
"Factual reporting" according to whom?
It doesn't really work in the Lucknow railway station. Although there are ads all over the place that say "High Speed Wi-Fi available here", sometimes your device won't even discover the "Railwire" SSID.

A high-speed Wi-Fi service also seems a bit stupid given the fact that no ISP in Lucknow provides an unlimited 50+ Mbps broadband connection. What do they expect us to do? Take our laptops and sit at the station which is littered with rats, monkeys, their shit, and trash?

You can get an unlimited <50Mbps connection but that'll cost you approximately $500 - $1000 a month. For other "home users" there are shitty plans that give you 30GB-200GB of data with 2Mbps - 16Mbps for approximately $30 a month.
Yeah but I have higher expectations from the guardian.
Are you enjoying the noise of the new keyboard?

https://vimeo.com/195645497
This is unacceptable. There's no reason to ruin all of these movies and shows, especially since this thread is about something else entirely. In any online community centred around works of fiction, this would be a bannable offense. I'm flagging your comment for this reason.

And no, not everyone knows about Vader. I have a friend who watched Star Wars for the first time last week just before we dragged him to Rogue One.
I'm going to answer this question under the assumption that you truly don't understand some of the core tenets regarding journalistic integrity.

On the surface, your argument is correct; the facts are the facts, and no amount of moral corruption will change that. Things get hairy when you remember that our world is anything other than black and white: facts can be distorted, misrepresented or ignored to deliver an entirely different message, even if they are still (technically) "factual".

This is why you don't want a known sleazebag for a reporter. Not only do they have a provably skewed moral compass that would let them deviate from pure "fact-based" reporting, there is also a safe assumption that they have other, worse skeletons in their closet which would mean they're susceptible to being blackmailed into deviating from pure "fact-based" reporting.
Reminds me of "It Follows". David Robert Mitchell made some pretty interesting prop choices specifically to avoid dating the movie. From his AV Club interview:

> There are production design elements from the ’50s on up to modern day. [...] if you show a specific smartphone now, it dates it. It’s too real for the movie. It would bother me anyway. So we made one up. And all of that is really just to create the effect of a dream—to place it outside of time, and to make people wonder about where they are.
So someone can't function as a normal, honest employee (what is an administrator? Sounds like either a forum admin or glorified secretary) after they've participated in the sex industry? Or is it the infidelity that bothers you? Either way you're the one with a knee jerk reaction.
if your source code is compiled without symbols, or if your elf executable is missing the section headers, or you've run strip, the disassembler will not give you the function names or the variable names.
That really was a fun fact; thanks.
"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."

-- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere. (In an intentional homage to Neuromancer.)

On another tangent: Gibson wrote, in an afterword in an early-1990s digital edition of Neuromancer, that he had never owned, nor even used, a computer until some years after he wrote the book. He noted that:

> Neuromancer and its two sequels are not about computers. They may pretend, at times, and often rather badly, to be about computers, but really they're about technology in some broader sense. Personally, I suspect they're actually about Industrial Culture; about what we do with machines, what machines do with us, and how wholly unconscious (and usually unlegislated) this process has been, is, and will be. Had I actually known a great deal (by 1981 standards) about real computing, I doubt very much I would (or could) have written Neuromancer.
I want people to want this but I know that people don't.

Imagine having a rewind button on your whole life, with annotations and references. That means everything you think or associations you make can be "sourced." That's an amazing thing that would eliminate any self delusion, deceitful action or inconsistent behavior.

Trouble is, humans are knots of inconsistency, deceit and delusion and we can't live otherwise. It puts our brains into panic mode and existential dread. If we could handle it, all the world's problems would go away, but we can't. Our current conception of ourselves is a polished and selective reinterpretation of our own past so that we can try and make our future selves fit some narrative. An accurate and auditable history would blow that up entirely.

I really want to figure out a way to build such a system but my fear is that it's incompatible with humanity.
So could the AppEngine subdomain that Signal is using be DDoSed to make it timeout (or run up their bill fantastically high) when the domain fronted message is forwarded?
So? What does a porn and escort background have to do with one's ability to be an administrator?
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It's definitely a movie I wish I could watch for the first time again.
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Pft, no Galileo support? Just pathethic...

(Kidding of course. Awesome write-up.)
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Quite right, though the high water mark approach predates 2008.
Thanks for the links. I find it unfortunate that often in science (and especially with the LIGO data) much is written about what could possibly be lurking in the data but isn't actually favored over our current understanding.

This creates more interest, but can obfuscate what the real situation in the field is. In this case, while Gravastars are certainly something many scientists actively do and should consider, there is no real evidence from the LIGO data that favors the hypothesis of "we are in a universe that lacks causality" over the observation of the merger of two Kerr black holes.
How does the saying go? The victors write the history books - the rest is just fake news.
I have looked at CFAR before, and have inhaled any amount of self development literature.

The only thing I don't struggle to find intrinsic motivation for is programming. I am yet to find a long term goal that resonates at all. All success so far in my life feels entirely attributable to getting bored and saying "what else is there?" and/or seeking external validation. I earn just enough to fly business class whenever I fly because I enjoy the comfort aspect and the external validation that comes with it. The next financial jump is likely to come from wanting to fly private, because why not?

It seems self evident to me that this is deeply unhealthy, but ironically I'm yet to find a solution.
1) none of my coworkers care. I'm sure very early employees may care but I don't know any and I can't speak for them.

2) most have RSUs. But if you're going to exercise in 90 days then you're going to exercise in 30 days so it doesn't even matter.
Can also be used for wives when they walk in on you doing something like ah.. reading "Dear Abby"
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I don't always agree with, and I likely don't understand, a lot of what Venkatesh Rao writes, but he is always entertaining.

His outline of the modern corporation is fantastic:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
That's back when flip phones filled an entire room.
Both broccoli and cabbage are "cruciferous vegatables".[0] Other ones you're probably familiar with include Brussels sprouts and kale. It's a very healthy family, and while I'm no nutritionist, I suspect the benefits are not limited strictly to broccoli and cabbage.

[0] http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=btnews&dbid=126
Some political activists have no choice but to yell "Fake News!" to rationalize censorship now, because they basically used "Racist!" to censor views they didn't like so much that the word no longer has meaning. It makes you wonder what will come next.

The funny (or sad) part is that silencing dissenting opinions via means like this is the very definition of fascism, but the people so quick to yell "fake news!" now are the same ones who were calling their friends fascist on social media 2 months ago just for supporting a different presidential candidate than they were.
Ha, I thought this project would generate a realistic-looking photo based on a text description... using deep nets
Once you are on the right platform, look up. There are boards that have numbers like 1, 2, on them, and in small letters, below them, the coach number.
There's no Under Construction gif, definitely not a reflection of the times.

http://www.netanimations.net/fire-under-construction-animati...
I balked at the output, which was 1.9MB for KitchenSink.html which showed up in editor as 3,902 lines and 707,605 columns, by simply adding 3 characters to the template provided.

Could this be optimised? Having not a single file as output? As much as I dislike CDNs most of the time, if this is to be federated to cache most of this fluff on a central CDN option (or local CDN) seems to be sensible, or at least let it be cached somewhere.

^
Wish to be be critically useful.
According to the epistemological principle of not being proved wrong while containing a reasonable amount of evidence to indicate that their report is in all probability true.

Why are you asking such a vague, open-ended question?
I don't necessarily agree with you, but I'm curious to hear your reasoning. Why do you say this film is propaganda?
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Ok. A couple of things. My original point that you replied to relates to 2011, not 2016.

The analog is that in 2011 TB was a new, multi-purpose plug that can do just about anything (and USB-C is that thing in 2016, and it benefits from 5 additional years of progress, so yes, of course it can do more than TB). IIRC, Apple bragged about how great TB was when they announced it.

TB can provide 18V/10W/550mA. That's enough for what most people used USB 2 for in 2011 (Apple didn't introduce USB 3 until the 2012 MBP, IIRC).

At the very least Apple could have chosen to create a similar situation where TB could replace all the MBP's data ports that mattered in 2011 (in the same way they dropped all ports in late 2016) and force everyone to use a dongle for backwards compatibility when they introduced the early 2011 MBPs. But Apple didn't. Probably because they knew people would be unhappy. If Apple had the #courage to drop the USB and FW ports back then, people would have already been living the #donglelife for 5 years. Nobody would have even blinked or complained in the transition to USB-C.

And it also really doesn't matter that TB couldn't charge a Macbook Pro in 2011. Nobody would have cared, as everyone was still deeply in love with MagSafe (and many still are).

>> All USB Type-C cables should support 60W.

That might be true, but even Apple doesn't make it that simple, because they made a 61W charger (yes, I see that the charger's 1W over the 60W limit) that's incompatible with a bunch of previous cables designed for 29W chargers and you have to read the serial number on the cable just to be sure you're using the right one (I suspect a lot people won't know to do that).

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201700
Exactly what I said, you don't understand how GPL works and you just slander grsecurity for no reason.

Even you said they're not breaking GPL multiple times. What they're doing is allowed.
What can I say? There are exceptions to every rule, and I see very little direct evidence of critical thinking skills in Ben Carson. Geez, the man is a YEC. That's about as far from rationality as you can get without being locked up.
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