skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine how much more persuasive this comment would have been if you'd just taken a few more seconds add and hand full of links to provide evidence and context to your statement.
Only Trump statements, not including his staff [1]:

Of 26 checked statements, 20 were mostly false or worse.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/stateme...
This kind of actions are important now more than ever for western societies. We have to remember that Russia is committed to destroy democratic institutions using fake news as one of its tools. Using fake news is an old trick to distort reality. In the pass it was done controlling state media or a good part of it. Now is making it into your Facebook feed.
And do the gentleman's thing of indicating affiliate links by appending a * or other symbol.

Transparency is good, even if the laws in your part of the world don't require it.
Toronto's thestar.com did a piece on this (80 lies in 28 days):

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/02/03/daniel-dales-d...
it has been reported in recent years that Generation Z is more conservative than Millenials in all ways except socially (e.g. they hold positive views about transgender rights, marijuana legalisation and same-sex marriage).

see https://www.quora.com/Is-generation-Z-more-conservative-than...
Their rates are surprisingly reasonable. For example, I mentioned that leasing conduit from the utility here is $3/ft/yr; those rates are as low as $0.6909/ft/yr, significantly cheaper.
There have been lots of malicious chrome extensions in the past that essentially sent all your visits (with the location hash) to a server.
Nice searches, I searched for Clarke first and there is even less than Asimov :(
Ask HN: What is the most clever web caching strategy your company is using?
It seems nowadays everyone is using static assets which are cached forever by the CDN, and changes are pushed to the users by adding some sort of content hash into the filename. You benefit from the browser keeping all files in the cache forever, and yet you can deploy changes very easily by simply using a different filename for the updated assets.

Yesterday I became aware of a different technique, for which I couldn't find extensive documentation yet: We're building a social network type website and I found out that you can (and should) mix Etag-based caching and the traditional "Cache-Policy: private, max-age=XXX, must-revalidate" on the same route, depending on which user is requesting the data.

This approach solves the issue that you want to cache all your api route responses at the client, but if the user wants to change some of their own data (which can be changed by the user but is also fetched through the same API) you can reply to the user's own objects with the dynamic Etag instead of the forever-lasting "Cache-Policy".

It is a pretty simple concept to address caching not only on a per-route, but also on a per-user-per-route level.

In the end, it left me wondering what other things in terms of web caching I have been overlooking in the past few years. I'd appreciate if you could share your stories.
For the added benefit of context (so it's not misrepresented, even on this site):

2. PewDiePie is a comedian. His racist jokes are outliers, not the norm. The anti-semtic debacle was about pushing the boundaries for his "how far can I get with just $5 on Fiverr" skit -- its prime motive was not to enlighten his impressionable audience about his views on jews.

> There are indeed a lot of young men whose primary political belief that they should be allowed to say whatever they want on the internet without consequences, and are upset with the media when this turns out not to be true. But that isn't the media's fault.

This is true. It's a growing trend and I forsee it becoming the norm. If this incident shows anything, it's that legacy media v. young progressivism is a losing battle.
App templates for taking a product to market in 2-3 weeks
what happened to the backblaze backup?
Well I don't have that much time, so for now I only looked at pictures with people in them they have posted since December 1.

Simply counting people yields 29% white women, 19% women of color, 21% men of color, 30% white men.

Not a very exact science, though - I left out groups above a certain size (for example picture from Anti-Trump demonstration or MLKday), and in some cases I couldn't recognize the people. Many white men come from office shots where they linger in the background, whereas there are many tweets explicitly featuring female or black engineers. It seems by only looking at their "media timeline" I also missed photos like this one: https://twitter.com/Every28HoursPla/status/83166688771703193... (which they retweeted).

I'll try to find time for a better "analysis", ideally including texts.

Compared to last time there seem to be now more posts boasting technology at Google. For example there were several about Tensor Flow, all featuring the same white guy (I counted him for every instance).

I couldn't find the time when I last posted about lifeatgoogle, would have liked to look at their tweets from around then.

For comparison employee stats from 2014: http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/google-employee-demographics/... - 70% male, 91% white or asian.
I think it's coming in the Windows 10 Creators Update in April:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/2/14146182/microsoft-windows-...
Something interesting that may want to be worked on one day is that searching for an author's full name seems to bring up different results than just searching for their last name.
A distributed machine-learning network for some whatever reason :)
We live in a world where obama can get the number of US states wrong and get a pass, and trump mentioning a segment he saw last night on FOX is the end of the world.

Interestingly enough the media parroted the "debunked" claim when the article was using statistics from Sweden's own government. Rape is up 70% since 2005.

Grenade attacks are also a thing in Sweden now, which is absolutely unacceptable.
Pretty cool website. It is properly credited at the bottom of the page, but I think it deserves an explicit mention.

Creative-tim, material-kit theme [1]

[1] http://demos.creative-tim.com/material-kit/index.html
spoons are pretty well designed
What for? I don't know a single F key shortcut. People say debugging, which seems fair enough. I guess I've always found the mouse-based controls sufficient to use the Xcode debugger.

Apart from the debugger, what do people need the F keys for? Are people really debugging that often?

I use a hell of a lot of keyboard shortcuts, mind you. But none of them are F keys.
Health care is a pretty simple one to explain. In addition to the fact that technology doesn't bring massive productivity increases to a field that requires human-to-human interaction, the fact is that health care today is a much much more extensive undertaking than it was 50 years ago. We have much better drugs, much better treatments, and much better diagnosing tools. There's also the paradox that better health care means longer lifespans which means greater health care expenses. When chronic conditions can be managed instead of quickly becoming terminal, that's a win, but it also means that the health care costs for that human go way way up. There's corruption, rent-seeking, patent abuse and monopoly effects, too, of course, not to mention a balkanized health insurance market. But the basic fact is that we get a lot more from health care industry than we ever did in the past, so you'd expect that that portion of the economy would be much bigger than it ever was.
Can't read the first source, but the National Review should never be cited as a legitimate source (the second link). It also reads like an almost raving rant...
What's interesting and problematic is that it is exactly that kind of faith based ("reputation") belief that is causing such a split between the "alt right" news and the other news.

You might take it for granted that e.g. Washington Post, CNN, etc should be trusted but your primary reason for doing so is their age and historic pedigree. Their anonymously sourced stories sometimes don't pan out, and there's seemingly no consequence for them when that occurs.

So what's stopping people at the far right from sitting around all day poking holes in these publications anonymously sourced stories that people believe based on faith, and then holding up their own drudge (Breitbart, Fox News, etc) as equivalent? That's what allows alt news to flourish.

It is something a lot of people seem to miss. If you believe a specific piece of news based on Reputation, then that's no different from the "alt news" folks believing a different piece of news based on Reputation. Reputation is in the eye of the beholder after all.
US Customs block Canadian man after reading his social media
How does the Touchbar work in Windows? Do you just get esc/f keys permanently?
If you buy a cheap ARM SoC, there's a decent chance that you get a GPU "for free" (in the sense that chips without a GPU turn out to be more expensive).
Interesting?
On occasion, sourcing specialty materials is truly the issue in racing. When race season starts, many fluids, and composite products are sold out for months. Many are very bespoke to racing and aerospace, so lead time may be years. Using our own processes and layup is often as much about availability as function. For F1 budgets, this may be less of an issue.
He mentioned all cities and countries where terrorist attacks occurred. Then mentioned something happened in Sweden as well specifically the night before. It's not because he didn't put the word "terrorist attack" in the same sentence that he didn't mean that, it's clear from the transcript that it was exactly what he meant.

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"Here's the bottom line, we've got to keep our country safe," Trump said. "You look at what's happening. We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden! They took in large numbers, they're having problems like they never thought possible."

He continued, " You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris. We’ve allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing. So we’re going to keep our country safe."
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> - You can launch Windows apps from bash.

So I can basically do `code .` from inside bash and it will open VS Code in the linux sub-system folder? That's amazing!
For the MITM Part, I can think of:

- Send HSTS header in your code, instead of relying on the server).
- Drop the connection if it is not secure. This breaks a reverse-proxy setup though.
A month later, André attempted to fly to New Orleans again....When he went through secondary inspection at Vancouver airport, US Customs officers didn’t even need to ask for his passwords — they were saved in their own system.

So they're saving all the passwords and identifying data they download on a centralised system for everyone who enters the country.

What could possibly go wrong?
Have you tried appear.in ? https://appear.in/ . It generates a link, and has pretty good resolution and no invites or anything, and I like their UI a lot.

Most of the other problems (high resolution and immediacy) are a function of bandwidth and internet quality more than anything else I think :(

I'm also working on a video conferencing software (for a different use case) and unfortunately we can't do away with the prompts because of security, but WebRTC (https://webrtc.org/) has done away with plugin downloads for everything but iOS (Apple, as usual, not inviting others into their walled garden).
Nuclear physicist has made the world’s first approved birth control app
I'll decide what I'll believe and what is fact. Not an algorithm or search engine.

It seems like Google is trying to make the old statement " its printed it must be true" new. "Its fact check on Google it must be true."

The joy of reading online is coming under attack.
I was referring to the founders of startups that fail (edited now).
Iodine-131 is used in cancer treatment so there may be a leak from pharmaceutical company. [0]

The similar case was observed in 2011 when the some I-131 isotopes leaked from the laboratory in Budapest. [1]

[0]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nobody-is-sure-wh...

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Taking the Leap from 2D to 3D:Notes from my First year on the HoloLens design team
Becoming a CLEC does classify you as a "utility" though, which has other benefits.
I've been contemplating setting up a small [NW]ISP for our neighborhood (rural, wooded, private roads) but LOS issues limit my wireless options. One thought was to install a few airfibers and "demux" them with G.fast to each CPE via its service drop interconnect in the pedestal. This has the benefit of not having to trench the last 100 yards from the street to the residence. BUT I can find scant information on what authority one needs to do so. Do I need to be a CLEC/BIAS? Or is the local cable plant completely hands-off? Any pointers would be immensely appreciated (and thanks, Chris, for a great article. I look forward to reading more!)
I love mailgun for projects
Kubernetes on Microsoft’s Azure Container Service is now generally available
24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense [2012]
It's so much easier to win when the product is the best. You can still lose because of 5000 other reasons, but the best product makes everything else so much easier.
Any time anyone misuses "zero knowledge", please direct them to this page: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/08/crypto-misnomers-zero-kno...
Trump didn't directly claim there was a terrorist attack in Sweden "last night", but by saying in the same breath as "look at Paris, look at Nice" where there was three very well known attacks in 2 years, he is implicitely saying "there was an attack in Sweden last night", and he knows it perfectly well. And he knows that a portion of his listeners will not hear the debunking and others will believe him rather than hard tangible facts. And he very consciouly said it in this way because he knew all this.

This is the Kuleshov effect of speeches.
> Google should not be prohibited to discriminate or censor search results[...]

You're right, filtering results would be a concerning step. I guess this is why they've added a fact check tag rather than a filter. I think it's a good solution.

But then again, free speech doesn't mean you have the right to have your results shown on the first page of Google. If they change their algorithm to preference articles with fact checking, is it the same as someone refusing to make a wedding cake for two dudes?
How come reviewers let this stuff pass in papers? While some of the issues are subtle (inventing more work or mangling the algorithm), some of the graph-based tricks are pretty obvious.
Introducing TaaS: Truth as a Service. Brought to you by your omniscient Corporate Overlords. Because you're not smart enough to find the Truth for yourself!
Perhaps put the year of posting in the title? Has anything changed since this has been published?
Cynically, I'd say it breaks because the only mistakes that we live with, try to work around or fix are the ones made no later than the mid-90s. Everything else, we live with for a while, then boldly proclaim that they're outdated, junk from another age, no longer appropriate for a modern system and then promptly rewrite -- so unsurprisingly, a lot of components of a major Linux desktop are basically beta-quality and/or in a continuous state of flux.

Look at the Gnome 3.22 changelog. It lists things like support for multiple renaming, being able to set alarms for events in Calendar and seamless photo sharing via Google Photos and email. I remember being excited about all these features (except Google Photos, for obvious reasons) when I was using Windows. 2000. I was using Windows 2000.

That's why we're rejoicing that we'll soon have ASLR in all mainstream distros and support for a display server/compositor where windows can't snoop on other windows is just around the corner, while Microsoft is perfecting call-flow integrity and has had a proper compositor since the days when we were barely able to bolt our applications on top of an X11 compositor.

Edit: Non-cynically: most of the breakage happens because the level of complexity involved in a most modern technologies is way over the level that can be meaningfully managed by a community. systemd, xdg-everything, they're all very useful tools, but only a handful of people can properly use them, and it doesn't help that so many of them work for Red Hat and aren't exactly transparent about a lot of things. This breeds mistrust and brings about a lot of unjustified criticism along with the justified one.

As for why PulseAudio in particular keeps breaking, I'm not familiar enough with its source code to say. My problems revolve around things like randomly deciding to use another output device. I work around it by not using it, really. Every couple of months I take KDE and Gnome for a ride, they keep breaking, I open up the page of my local Apple dealer, I gaze incredulously at how much money they want for that hardware, close the page, pacman -Rcs plasma-meta and get back to WindowMaker.
What if the popularity based content curation creates problems like mobs, genocide, destruction of democracies, destruction of alliances, destruction of the environment, destruction of institutions?

Think of smaller non-digital social groups and how bad a rumour can affect somebodies lives and how helpful is to have somebody respected who can break the positive feedback loop. Pre-digital communities faced similar problems of the digital media and they were able to build mechanisms to cope with these.

These companies are trying to implement similar mechanism to break these loops and are going to be effective only if the fact checking organisations do good job.

If it works our, we can have the information spread freely but displayed in a context. So If you a fact checking organisation proves to be reliable, users will be able to have more accurate understanding of the reality.

If the fact checkers fail, people will just disregard the judgements of these.
I want to know if any of the pictures from my trail camera include deer. It sounds like Rekognition might be the answer for this.
It's a shame you've been downvoted, but I think it just enforces your point on how uncomfortable it is for people to accept it.
`reject!` seems like a very straightforward case to me, one that makes sense to be in the standard library. How would different use cases change its behavior? What are the "meaty if-statements behind flags" here?
In the FAQ it does clearly mention that affiliate links are used.

I personally, don't have any issues with affiliate links so long as it takes me where I expected to go without a bunch of redirects through various trackers. Basically if I can follow it w/ an ad blocker on we're okay in my book.
I think it's a stretch to conclude that it's young progressives testing the boundaries of free speech.
"Mark Cuban recently talked about it as the most important technology to ramp up on, to avoid becoming a “dinosaur”"

I wonder if this impresses this blog's audience, or does exactly the opposite...
I'd much prefer if Google let me opt in to the fact checking organizations I trust.

Of course then some idiots will pick Infowars as their fact checker.
Sublime Text settings for writing PEP 8 Python
How about showing the country of record from WHOIS? Most of the severe offenders I saw in 2016 were e.g. Washington Post knockoffs using a Panama "WHOIS guard" mailing address, or sites that were literally registered to a street address in Macedonia (e.g. usapoliticszone.com). These are the sorts of sites that were tricking Trump devotees en masse in private groups (on Facebook and across the broader internet).

Surely having a real mailing address listed in WHOIS isn't too much to ask for a news organization? Google performs real verification on mailing addresses of Maps business listings – the technical infrastructure to hard-verify WHOIS mailing addresses seems to already exist.
Amdahl's Law is easy to misapply on both sides of the fence. If what you care about is mostly weak scaling (using larger machines to solve larger problems), the Law is not as harsh as it appears at first glance, as in many cases the parallel fraction increases as the workload does.
With Visual Studio Code, Microsoft is making Windows 10 really appealing to developers. I personally won't jump any time soon, I am really satisfied with my work environment on macOS (and Linux inside VM) (unless I got locked down into Microsoft stack for work, in that case I will gladly switch, but it's not like I will have any other option). But anyway, I recognize and appreciate the change at Microsoft's direction of thinking, it's awesome! I wouldn't believe if somebody told me this 10 years ago...
Probably depends on how much bandwidth you are interested in seeing at any given time.

If < ~2MHz and budget is everything, this sort of thing will get you started
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272267647631

These guys have iterated on the RTL stick a bit, though expect to pay a bit more:
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

If < 8MHz, try this
http://www.sdrplay.com
(Not an RTL stick, performance FAR better. I own this, it's great.)
I notice they have a new model out.

Above that, sky's the limit. Filters are possibly useful on the TV stick but by no means essential.

Antennas - all depends on proximity. If you're in the same room as your RF source, a bit of wire will do, for all but the weakest signals. Beyond that, it depends what you're doing.

My recommendation:
Buy the £7 stick, see if it gets the job done for you. If not, try the SDRPlay unit. I own both, they're both good and will likely get the job done.

Software:
HDSDR http://www.hdsdr.de/
SDR Console http://sdr-radio.com/
(current beta is excellent with SDRPlay RSP 1)

No affiliation to any links posted.
That analogy is nonsensical.

A pianist that doesn't use some keys is limited in the music they can produce.

I can write exactly the same code as you without using shortcuts.

I think the advantage is that I don't have to learn completely arbitrary lists of silly little keys to press, and I can keep my brain-space for useful things.
Yes, it was clear when I wrote that... Label itself will still be misinterpreted.
I know, there are still different communication requirements for different airspaces.

When you file your travel plans you'll have to check in with different ATCs at different points, you are also likely to be contacted by ATCs depending on the flight plan, conditions and various other factors during the flight.

If you do not check in on schedule e.g. when there is a handover of ATCs or you do not respond to ATCs that trying to make contact with you, there will be a flag and an alert will be likely sent.
If this goes on for minutes then they'll assume something was wrong and follow their procedure to make contact and investigate which might involve scrambling jets to make visual contact.

It's not like pilots can be too busy to respond to ATCs yes they might delay a response if they are in a middle of a sentence with a member of the air crew but that's a 5 seconds delay.
Even a 1 minute delay would be flagged and you'll likely to be asked why you haven't responded or made contact on time.
Game Imitation: Deep Supervised Convolutional Networks for Quick Video Game AI
Google is not public service though, it's a multi-billion dollar advertising corporation.

They are totally at liberty to do whatever the hell they like, however much they want to portray themselves as non-evil and in the public interest.