skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear that if you have problems, open source authors are glad to issue you a full refund of what you paid for their work - no questions asked!
Could you elaborate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345341
Because no one's actually buying the Dell ;).

People complain about things they care about.
Agree! My team all uses Clojure/ClojureScript for product development, and this has repeatedly been hailed as the most inviting book for getting started.
I wouldn't go as far as calling the people of the US savages but they certainly haven't learned how to get along as well as the Europeans do.

Slavery of local peoples (the people near Sweden) ended in 1335. Slavery of Africans ended in 1847. Unlike the US, Sweden doesn't appear to have a significant number of recent former slaves that need integrating, so I think my point still stands.
the only worth of infowars is the talk show when Alex Jones is on. For the disinformation that you sometimes hear, the info you don't hear anywhere else, makes it one of an the best news sources.
There is a sibling comment by lowglow which is 'dead'; don't know why because it seems quite relevant.
Please don't conflate poor journalism with fake news.

Reporting what the government said with no deeper context is poor journalism. The government really did say there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The New York Times reported those statements, not faked evidence of the weapons.

Fake news is just making shit up, like inventing a dead body and saying it was killed by Clinton.
China-Linked DragonOK APT Group continues updating tools and tactics
He says to the discussion group of people he does not believe to exist.
"We'll take this opportunity to point out that voice-command purchasing is enabled by default on Alexa devices.

"This is not the first time an ill-conceived TV spot has caused havoc with voice-control systems."

There's nothing ill conceived about the TV spot.
I'm not a software engineer, but I do program and code daily at my job as a designer.

I was always interested in drawing as a child. Naturally I gravited towards an art degree in college. In my sophomore year I took an interest in programming and for my junior and senior year I essentially split my time between programming and graphic design courses.

Understanding art and being able to appreciate fine craft has made me a better developer. I spend more time (trying to at least) do things the right way, or to write more efficient and elegant code.

A quality art degree from a well respected university will almost always teach students to think critically. There's a constant questioning that happens as an artist and the good ones are almost contrarian in nature. Employing a bit of this critical thinking in the tech field can take one a long way. Unfortunately that type of thinking is currently under attack.
It's a medical marijuana delivery service which currently only operates in California.
Yes? Telecom infrastructure can be costly. Many people use skype for international POTS calling.
Well of course it's not going to be popular here, where open source is considered holy and perfect, but he is 100% right.

For the record, I'm a HN reader and I don't feel disrespected.
> I feel like the term "fake news" became popular after the election

You're not wrong. It seemed like suddenly this phrase was everywhere.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=fak...
Wow. The author argues that the "white, rural, poor, and less-educated" demographic ruined the internet and now will ruin the country because they voted for Trump. Because of this, "elites" must come in and tell everyone how to think by "moderating" information on the internet. Unfortunately, this mindset is typical for the wealthy coastal elites who are still searching for the reasons Hillary lost.
A device for this exists already. Is he going to invest all that money in Durex or Trojan?
How about WSJ? Some articles in the Economist tend rightward.
There are lots of programming fonts designed to be used without anti-aliasing. This is a much cheaper way to get crisp typography.
I think the best approach is to ignore trolls, secondly to offer easy 'ignore' features in social devices.. this story by itself is planting seeds for more trolls.

The old saying sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.. needs to ring truer today than ever before and that's a personal decision. Tools would help with the scale of the problem.
Please report bugs your find on github, or I will lose track of them. There is no ctrl-ins, shift-ins, if you want those shortcuts you can add them in the config. What does ctrl-arrow do in bash? IIRC you have to map it to something it does not do anything by default. For kitty the codes to map are ^[OC and ^[OD
Yeah, I really dislike seeing this stuff on HN. Keep the drama out of here.
Maybe they are starting to get good and suck less? The first yoga and surfaces aren't exactly held up as very successful, but we seem to be turning a corner...finally.

Sometimes incremental improvement over a few years is all that is needed to push something over the edge of success.

Course, some ideas are probably going nowhere even with incremental improvement.
That explains a lot. Curious what happened - did the business model break to the extent that seasoned journalists that can manage foreign assignments are no longer on payroll or sought after? Is this a consequence of cost-cutting at news outlets?
In the movie, and I'd assume it's sourced from the book, the guns have temperature sensors and won't shoot at something that is warm blooded. But... that probably doesn't hold up with the "they're basically humans" anatomy of the hosts.
They all have wtf bugs. Think "JIT errors causing string concats to yield number objects and bitwise operators to fail when the code has run over 1000 times"-level wtf. I consider most of the "frontend" issues quite minor in that regard. Edge behaves very nicely, and for most intents and purposes. Older IE's were very much WTF: tickle it wrong - it could be as little as accessing the Math object at a bad time - and you got peculiar Access Denied exceptions (sometimes uncatchable, sometimes not), crashes, or other weird behaviour.

I agree on it mostly landing on ecosystem integration. I recently went from Safari to Chrome simply due to switching (back, after a few years away) to Android.

The only differences I feel after the switch is that Chrome's password integration is much quirkier than Safari's, and even quirkier when syncing to phone. Another difference is of course that the tab bar looks different, but that's basically it. Things sync to Google instead of to Apple. Maybe if I checked, I'd notice poorer battery life, but with battery life in the 7-10 hour range, I'm good.
>so I'm not sure how impartial we can consider it to be.

Surely the question isn't whether it's 'impartial' but whether it's accurate. If he is a liar and a thief then it's perfectly ok for the WSJ to call him one.
It's really a last ditch effort for the MSM to remain relevant by appointing themselves as the only source of "real" news.

The election was hugely damaging to them, as most outlets predicted a Clinton victory with certainty, and their bias was on full display (see: the Clinton campaign giving direct orders to some journalists). The surge in "fake news" hysteria is simply a way to discredit any independent news source.
I think at 1080p gaming, CPU power is more important nowadays. Overwatch benefits greatly from the i7 6700k over the i5 6600k, going from 240-260fps to 300fps (the cap imposed by the engine, hitting this cap is useful for reducing input lag). As a result I've seen many gaming builds rocking the 6700k (and even 3000Mhz RAM!)
> (I once dual-booted Mac OS and Arch, with a shared /home partition. It totally worked and was a lot of fun.)

Interesting! What caveats did you experience? Did you end up symlinking stuff like ~/.firefox to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox?
I find Reed Hastings take on VPN usage personally exhausting.
Show HN: Video Jukebox: Make YouTube playlists with people in your network
This whole piece is about the impact technology (internet and specifically social media) had.
There's a question of journalistic integrity.

If you read NYT as I do you expect to be told "the whole story" and not be reading a glorified crafted PR statement. I think that's irresponsible and as good as fake
I was a few credits from getting my BFA in Graphic Design but I dropped out. After a couple years I got a job at a company doing retail arbitrage on ebay doing listing design. I saw how terribly inefficient their processes were and decided to teach myself Ruby. The whole company now works on the systems I've built and we did 3 million in revenue this year.
Classic case of somebody using the universal
quantifier when they should be using the existential quantifier.
I see it as Trump, the master negotiator, knowing the one thing the media can't afford to point out, and then Trump the politician doing just that: Manufacturing Consent.
If I may, Logical Increments is nice, but sometimes leads astray. I develop a hardware recommender, and this is in my eyes a good gaming PC for 1440p: https://www.pc-kombo.de/share/OqqYoLX. i5-6600K with 16GB DDR4-3000 on a Z170 board, good psu and good cooler. When playing on a lower resolution like the usual 1080p, AMD with a RX 480 would be a good choice, otherwise there is no alternative to the GTX 1070.

Intel just released the Kaby Lake processors which are tiny bit faster (because they are clocked higher), currently integrating this. But does not change much.
Regardless of the election, the fact that stories like:

"Obama Signs Executive Order Banning The Pledge Of Allegience In Schools Nationwide"

This got 2,177,000 shares on Facebook.

These are the issue. I'm of the mind that Hillary Clinton lost because she was a lackluster candidate who didn't address blue collar issues properly, thinking that anti-poverty and welfare programs would be equivalent.

But just because the Democrats are sounding the alarm for reasons you find partisan, doesn't mean the problem goes away.

Fake news is the social web's version of fwd: fwd: fwd:, and we've always known that was hugely problematic. Well, now it's gone viral on a global scale. We can't ignore that.
> A device for this exists already. Is he going to invest all that money in Durex or Trojan?

First of all, sex is not the only way to contract HIV.

Second - and most people don't know this - condoms are not FDA approved for anal sex. They're not even tested for anal sex, and the testing requirements for condoms are specifically limited to vaginal sex[0].

But even if we look at vaginal sex, condoms are rather ineffective compared to other prevention methods, even when you look at success rates under perfect use. And perfect use is not what's relevant - what you need to look at are success rates under actual use). In this regard, condoms fail horribly as an HIV prevention tactic.

Decades of unscientific education or education based on faulty science have caused people to subjectively underestimate their risk of contracting HIV when using condoms, and to subjectively overestimate their risk when using other prevention methods.

For example, how would you rank these behaviors in terms of risk levels?

* Having sex, with a condom, with more than one partner of unknown HIV status
* Having sex, without a condom and without PrEP, with a single, HIV+ partner with an undetectable viral load
* Having sex, without a condom while taking PrEP, with multiple partners of unknown HIV status

Surprisingly, the first is the riskiest, and the second and third are comparable levels of risk. (The second is actually believed to be slightly less risky than the third, but the difference is not even statistically significant, let alone practically significant).

The common counterargument to this is that condoms prevent more than just HIV - except even then, people dramatically overestimate the protection that condoms provide. HIV is pretty much the only (common) sexually transmitted disease that can be transmitted through vaginal or anal intercourse but not through oral sex or other forms of physical and sexual contact. Since most people only use condoms for intercourse, the added protection they provide for other STDs under these scenarios is a lot less than people imagine.

In fact, STD transmission rates are actually lower among people who use PrEP for HIV prevention. The common explanation for this is that people on PrEP have to get routine checkups (every 90 days, usually), and this provides a convenient time to do other STD testing as well. For most people, the problem is that they simply don't do routine STD testing at all, which means they can have asymptomatic STDs (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, etc.) for much longer, which makes them harder to treat, and pass them on to more people in the interim.

[0] http://www.imstilljosh.com/fda-condoms-not-approved-anal-sex...
My experience with Let's Encrypt hasn't been great, but that's not LE's fault. Long story short, don't use Namecheap, at the very least not their shared servers.

From their support:

"Though we believe increased web security is a good thing, we also think that using certificates from free providers can get more risk and uncertainty into your business.
Additionally, we would like to draw your attention to several disadvantages and drawbacks of Let's Encrypt certificates:

1. No OV/EV support or possibility (no possibility to issue a certificate with medium or high assurance and user trust level);

2. Insufficient level of domain validation and the absence of brand validation ( All publicly trusted CAs are flagging the certificate containing IT, financial and other public words, brands etc for additional security checks, which is not applicable for LE.)

3. Short validity period (for LE certificates - only 90 days, for all trusted certificate provides - up to 39 months).

Since the nature of shared and reseller hosting implies having a significant number of independent customers' accounts on the same server instance, we cannot put at risk our other clients by enabling not fully secure technology.

These and other concerns (for example the fact that ACME-script for Let's Encrypt requires root access and is able to overwrite server configs) make us refrain from supporting Let's Encrypt on our shared servers. We hope for your kind understanding on the matter."

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Feel free to reply with other hosts that don't support LE, so I can avoid them (and hopefully others too!)
The fact that the real Erwin van Haarlem seemingly vanished is suspicious. I would assume you would only want to assign an identity of someone who is known to be dead, yet the orphanage apparently sent many letters to the mother. Assuming that's true, of course.
I'm a huge westworld fan so I made a fan site: http://westworld2.com
This. It's pretty common for me to say for days "oh, I should get more toothpaste today" and then completely forget by the time that I'm in a position to record that somewhere. At some point I say "crap, now I'm out of toothpaste".

If I could use voice to add to my list and/or order that wouldn't happen.
Best place to check for the latest in fake news is, as always, snopes.com

I can't imagine the kind of pressure they've been under the past year to debunk all these absurd viral stories.
The PC market stopped growing a few years ago, post market growth usually means innovation slows down because everyone can see the ceiling of the market.

The market still isn't growing that much, but we are seeing interesting innovative computers nonetheless. Perhaps a redefinition of the market to cross over with tablets.
That's the funniest first paragraph I've ever read. I'll probably be laughing for days. Great stuff.
High refresh rate screens are quite interesting. Which also means you need better components to run things at reasonable FPS.
I downvoted you. Since I really hate when people downvote me without providing a reason I thought I would comment:

This is pragmatism in action. I do think it's often easier to get better results by working around people's behaviors than than to try to fight them. (Btw: this applies to more situations involving humans than you're probably assuming.)

You're just being flippant, saying there is a solution, seemingly without even attempting to consider the situation from a holistic system point of view.
I can think of several reasons why this is better. One being that condoms only work if the man wears them (obviously). In cases of sexual assault or similar this would allow the other person to be protected from hiv.

Another being that condoms aren't 100% effective at preventing hiv, and combining with this provides more sure protection.
>realization that Clinton is going to do absolutely nothing to help them, and that while Trump will probably not help them either, there is at least a chance he might. At one point he asked "what have you got to lose?" I think that's a line that resonated very well in the Midwest.

Same thing explained trough prospect theory:

Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
http://cognitionandculture.net/blog/christophe-heintzs-blog/...
Well said. There's this assumption that when people don't do what you would do, that they're misinformed, when in fact, they may very well have the same information, it's just that they disagree with you. In other words, different people have different values and vote accordingly.
What every news consumer should consider is that every source has a bias. Only by considering multiple sources can you have something approaching "truth".
I use Firefox on PC and Safari on Mac, for everything.
My doc tells me I should keep my ears clean and warns I could be temporarily deafened if I don't clean out the wax. Of course I have a gene variant that makes me secrete a lot of wax.
You have to account for market size the EU economy is huge Russian economy is about the size of large US city.
Overall the cause of the issue can be, in my opinion, summarized as cognitive isolation.
People either never learn to or stop challenging their own views and knowledge.

This ranges from rather simple cases where people live in less advanced areas, living hard but repetitive lives, to the well-educated and experienced who stopped debating with people of the same level of mastery of some subject, thus, constantly amplifying their perception of a subject and eventually also ceasing to pick up nuanced disagreements from those who at least challenge a small part of the respective topic. The intent being, at best, to win an argument and validate one's perspective rather than letting others to convince oneself

In simpler terms, many people--whether educated by well-grounded or misleading sources--do not understand or neglect that even if you have trained, studied, researched in-depth for years, you are quite rarely capable of considering and addressing enough of the relevant approaches to a certain matter and that you have to continue to "peer-review" your own points of view your whole life.

Misconception of that often leading to the misinterpretation of the importance and the nuanced workings of trust in our societies which a whole new world of dangerous paths one can take.
To address this and the sister comment;

there are a few subtleties in this that I clearly didn't express well, the mindset is more one of "everything in moderation" than just ignoring criticism. I mostly meant to emphasize memories of e.g. in university, where I had a professor I really looked up to absolutely _gut_ me about some work I had previously been rather proud of. That hit me like a bag of bricks, and I was in a funk for days after. (at that point, that professor was one of the few allies I had at school so I felt entirely adrift.)

Since I've gotten a job, shown competencies over the years in delivering concrete projects, built up financial stability, I've found myself less reliant on the purely social arenas that I was leaning on when first entering the workforce. If someone says something negative, of course I'll give it thought and see if there are any truths in it that I should change my behavior around. But regardless of the answer to that question, I need to be able to move forward in a positive tone, and letting the chastisement "get me down" isn't going to accomplish that. (what I meant by "laugh it off"; in the, even if I was wrong sense, "Oh I've fucked up, better get on fixing that")

In less of a ramble, I've diversified my career stability, so I'm just less concerned about any particular screw-up. How I redress screwups is entirely a separate question.
My story's a little similar to this, though I started building web pages/sites at a young age (at the tail end of Netscape Navigator). I was studying graphic design at a city college with a phenomenal graphic design department then ended up transferring to a four-year university with a department that felt like a downgrade from city college.

I was already considering minoring in CS, but after a year of feeling underwhelmed in the department, I just made the switch over.

I agree with you and many of the other posts here that you do develop critical thinking/feedback skills. It was a little surprising switching to CS and seeing how very few peer-critiques were done.
Ubuntu with the i3 tiled window manager. You can make amazing and efficient use of the screen and the keyboard shortcuts are so smooth.
Look at the author's title. Highlights the post's motivation pretty well.
I love the competition between Transit and CityMapper. In cities with coverage, they're both so good it's stressful trying to choose!

We are spoiled by both in NYC and surrounding counties, in Paris Transit is crushing it with Velib integration, while in Copenhagen CityMapper's local know how is amazing.
As a disclaimer I'm not really an apple fan and have found all of their products to be blah to me.

Considering the rise in IoT based DDoS attacks and the ftc going after companies like D-Link for poor security practices, aren't security standards like Apple is requiring something we want to commend?
Also not a lawyer, but isn't that where gross negligence picks up the slack?
Fake news, like this?

http://www.infowars.com

http://www.breitbart.com

http://www.zerohedge.com

http://www.rt.com
You'll have to do some research off-HN, sorry. I'm already treading very thin ground by questioning the polite consensus on these topics. It's too dangerous to bring up the real issues at a place like HN.

Try scanning, say, the Unz Review once in a while. Hold your nose and look at the content. Yes, everyone respectable will denounce the place, but make up your own mind. Occasionally, you'll see an article that makes you say, "Hrm. That makes sense." You'll have been trained to reject this feeling, to attribute it to something evil within yourself. You'll want to go running back to your comfortable lies. Ignore this sensation, just for a moment, and give new ideas the benefit of the doubt.

I suppose one thing that's safe to talk about is the campus rape issue. The official story is that the American college is about as dangerous as a third world country when it came to sexual assault. After Rolling Stone's piece was revealed to be a complete fabrication, this claim started to lose its currency. But until this debunking, everyone went along with the idea that campus was some sort of awful, dangerous place and that men were demons. The Jackie article was far from the first one painting an unreal image of gender relations.

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything other examples I can denounce in polite company. All I can say is that the official story is that human being are blank slates upon birth, with all characteristics socially constructed, and that this idea is false. Nothing in our society makes sense if you ascribe to the blank slate idea, but the media pushes it anyway. The intellectual contortions that the mainstream media uses to preserve the blank slake hypothesis are embarrassing and credibility-destroying.