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To be honest, when reading stories in this genre, you have to understand that if you push it to the limit, it won't make sense. There's a number of other similar stories where, for instance, quantum phenomena are taken up to the classical, human-observable level or something. The idea is to have fun and expand your brain, not push them to the limit of plausibility, because we only know of one system that is both complicated enough to host stories and completely self-consistent, which is precisely and exactly the real world. And even that is A: assuming it really is completely self-consistent and B: a system that at the moment we are very clear on the fact that we do not completely understand it.

It's OK to notice the issues, but if you want to read in this genre you kind of have to get used to just noting them and moving on. Asking an author to write something that can hold up completely has three problems. Nobody could write a non-trivial completely self-consistent story that deviates from reality that much, nobody would be willing to read the resulting story that proves it out because it would require a lot of words to prove that, and in many cases it may not even be possible to be self-consistent in the first place. (Witness the problem we have just coming up with one physics that is consistent with itself and the real world, let alone creating non-trivial new ones from scratch.) It would not be a net benefit to not write those stories.
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Assaults on free speech always come with arguments of moral righteousness.

A service to the public needs to actually credibly serve the public. A bakery cannot refuse to cater a wedding, ever if they find the clients repulsive because they are two dudes, or whatever reason they have. Google should not be permitted to discriminate or censor search results, even if they find the clients repulsive because they are 4chan users, or whatever reason they have.
Very impressive. I am working in a cognitive computing book, and I am going to add a chapter or appendix on Amazon AI. A little off topic, but even though I self-classify as a Google fan and very much enjoyed working there as a contractor, when a friend asked once which technology company impressed me more I said Amazon.

A big win for Amazon is that so many companies already have huge data sets in S3. Having AI APIs 'close to' existing data makes it easier getting started.
Not directly. Fact checking just seems like it's an API layer in news. By proxy, you're now trusting the fact checking organizations instead of the publisher/journalist themselves. Readers will read your news if they've got that tag on there. So it helps both sides out on the surface.

It's very difficult to collude with 120 organizations dedicated to fact checking.

The actual problem is when 120 organizations disagree 50/50 about the truth, you're basically left with a consensus problem and you have to decide who's side is more trustworthy, which is a problem we had before with deciding which news organizations were trustworthy. All this is doing is moving the ball from the old guard to the new and rebranding it, because the population loves shiny new things. Or maybe the old guard is just fronting.

There also probably won't be published data about when fact checking organizations are wrong, so nothing is stopping a decently financed group from becoming an authority in this new system and then staying around for a good while. There's also no metric for success and thresholds of when badly managed fact checking organizations should be culled from the herd.

Will fact checking organizations have the balls to publish facts that put themselves in a terrible light and then self-terminate? What about the reputations of the people in that organization who move on to new organizations? Are they sufficiently punished for abusing the system?

That is what is disturbing about this: that anyone can stand up and throw the fact checking badge around. It's not state-level censorship yet (IMO).
> An econometrician does not have the necessary experience to create a practical "barometer" for an industry

Gross domestic product, producer price indices, consumer price indices, employment statistics, housing starts, manufacturing and trade inventory levels and flows and stock indices are not practical? I think you underestimate the role and prevalence of econometric methods.

> It's a simpler version of what the S&P stands for

The S&P 500 has a clearly-stated goal and methodology [1]. It's used as a shorthand for U.S. large cap equities because it's well designed for that purpose.

The Bloomberg "barometer" doesn't do any of these. Is it supposed to forecast valuations? Ease of fundraising? IPO conditions? Nailing down what an index is designed to do, practically, is important because that directs which data one uses and how one weights them. Calling this a "quick reference" is a farce--it's an obfuscated infographic that fails to make a point.

[1] https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology...
I wonder when it will be RTM (release to manufacturing => stable)
I found the data you speak of from Voyager I and II years ago. It included the raw frames which were full of dots from Vidicon tubes.

My guess is that New Horizons is still too new. I think scientists get exclusive access for a year or two.

You could always try a FOIA request to NASA. They are required to reply to those.
a correction for anyone reading this:

1. Lies were put out on both sides of the GamerGate controversy. It all turned into a horrible mess on both sides.

2. PewDiePie paid for people on fiverrr to hold up an offensive sign, just to see if they'd do it. If you'd seen the video you'd know that he was incredibly surprised that they went through with it. Reporting that he's a neo-Nazi off the back of this is exactly the kind of exaggeration and lying that many now find to be commonplace in the media.
You may be right. My reading of the quote I referenced "I would never act contrary..." is that she's choosing not to act contrary to the visions she sees.

But it could indeed be that the Heptapod language is some sort of brain virus and any information she gets from the future she's helpless carrying out like some automaton. See the sibling thread about a "memetic virus".

In any case, what I'm pointing out in this thread is that I think at there's no way to make sense of the storyline of the movie, since it's internally self-contradictory in how it treats time travel.

I don't have time to dig this up now, but there were some interviews after it came out where it was made clear that this change was purely made to make the movie more appealing to viewers, at the cost of internal consistency.
Clickable: http://home.totspics.com/BReMPA/loader.html

A web page with some diagrams would probably provide me with a better understanding of what you have built. A code repository might help too. Keep in mind that people are coming to your project without having worked on it and thought about it. So things that seem obvious or self explanatory or requiring minimal explanation probably are not that way for other people.

Good luck.
I think this is more about the low standards in journalism as opposed to high standards of honesty in the Trump adminstration.

A recent example: Salon just ran an article on Milo Yiannopoulos. He was sexually abused as a child and made claims a year ago that recently came to light that it was mostly his fault and he seduced the transgressor, somewhat excusing the behavior. At that very same moment they removed articles that seemed to support pedophilia that they had published previously.

https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/8338350313281249...
Yes, the problem is not a technical one, and the term 'fake news' is in itself gaslighting and part of the problem - as soon as you accept this term, you accept people just shouting fake news to shut down conversation (as Trump does frequently to shut down lines of questioning he doesn't like, notably in his press conference before he'd even heard the question). We should reject the premise of any argument that depends on some news being fake and some being real, and somehow if everyone just knew the one truth it'd be ok.

People start from different places (education, background, prejudices), so they interpret even the same set of facts differently. We don't have too much fake news, we have too little critical thinking.
If only facts were so clear.

What if the event is hidden?

For example, the New Year's assaults in Cologne that the German government allegedly attempted to cover up.[1] That failed, but such efforts do sometimes succeed.

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/120...
Do you feel the same way about peer review?

Fact Checking isn't censorship. It is a process whereby someone with good reputation for factual accuracy, gauges the extent to which an article is based on accurate facts.
> That, like every argument of compatibilism I've seen, attempts to "have one's cake and eat it too" in an incoherent manner. When you reduce the dressings down to the base premises and conclusion, it's a matter of redefining terminology for a semantical victory. That's exactly like the sort of thing Wittgenstein used to criticize, because the conclusions aren't meaningful.

> What would it actually mean for someone to somehow have the ability to know the future with certainty, while also retaining the ability to change the future? The ability to express that idea grammatically and to create a compelling narrative revolving around it doesn't make it logically coherent. Simply having the ability in principle means that there is a logical paradox.

I've never understood the non-compatibilist view. The laws of physics are mechanistic almost by definition; the only question is whether they are deterministic or randomized, but the idea that one's decisions could be partly random doesn't seem to make them any more consciously controlled than if they're deterministic.

The thing that I've always found incoherent is the very idea of "free will". What would it actually mean to have free will? How could we distinguish between someone who has it and someone who doesn't?

The closest I can get to it while remaining coherent is the idea that there's some pattern that's "me", and that to the extent to which this pattern is causally entangled with events, I'm exerting my will on those events. Knowing the future wouldn't change that.
As far as email sending is concerned, Mailgun seems better, with 10k emails per month free, no?
I won't say the sexism angle is bunk, but the difference in attitude also strike at the very question of what the role of a CEO is. Just with a reddit-y spin:

Are the CEOs ultimately responsible for the behavior of the company beyond simple profit/sustainability? (This is a series of rhetorical questions, but do remember that your position for Pao/Huffman also applies to Kalanick). Is it their job to jump on the grenade so the area is clear for everyone else to pick up the pick up the pieces and move a never version of the company forward? To eat the problem so the baggage doesn't weigh on the company forever?

I think under Pao, we saw a reddit userbase that expected the CEO to be a leader. A case where forcing a CEO to confront the dissent and dissatisfaction would compel action. In the wake of her ouster, and under Huffman it has become known the top brass DGAF. They have an addicted userbase and will skirt ownership and responsibility of the orgnization's actions like weasly middle managers (or politicians). The userbase appears to have adapted to operating under those terms. Why would the userbase maintain the same dissent towards Huffman? That would be insanity (doing the same thing, expecting different results).
If that's true its terribly poor labeling. I guarantee the majority of folks glancing at an article and seeing that tag will interpret it as the article being vetted not an article doing the vetting.

If that's what they're doing their must be a reference article the "fact checking" article is pointing to. So I'd much rather have tags on the reference article pointing to the "fact checking" articles and tags on the "fact checking" articles pointing back to the reference article.
Sounds like a serious condemnation of the media.

My theory is that public opinion takes a long time to shift on these issues, and the media has been a fundamentally dishonest and deceptive industry for so long it's hard to outdo them in such a short time.
I didn't know this and just did it on my previous gen macbook, thanks!
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E2E /is/ part of the Matrix protocol - it's just still in beta. The spec PRs haven't landed yet (http://matrix.org/speculator/spec/drafts%252Fe2e/client_serv...). Once out of beta it'll be turned on everywhere by default.
Interesting that the "facts" in your comment have now changed since you originally posted. Is it a "terror attack" or a "mass shooting" in Sweden that you are claiming Trump referenced?
I think The goal shouldn't be to detect fake news. The goal should be to detect whether a specific claim is true or false. For that, you simply need a site, like a crowd sourced fact checking sites, where people are required to source their arguments precisely, unlike fake news which doesn't. Then you have a resource to turn to, similarly to how fact checkers are used in the face of fake news.
After that, you can build an engine to crawl news articles or have them submitted, and detect the claims being made. Those claims can be either auto-matched to existing ones or create new ones (deduplication) and then the site has a fresh new stream of claims to fact check.
StackOverflow could build this site on their existing engine. If someone here knows them, can you reply and put me in touch?
That's what they do now. It's why I know that vaccines cause autism, and global warming is a myth.
At a quick glance there was far too much Trump. I think this definitely needs some form of news category system in place.

I get that it's supposed to be things from influential people but even limiting the sources to those people results in a huge mess of news, the majority not relevant or interesting to me.

Edit: It probably shouldn't count the NY Times as an influencer when it comes to NY Times articles. It probably shouldn't list NY Times at all.

> News discussed by people we trust
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Even if some were questionable, it doesn't mean there's a hidden agenda. Unlike the real 'fake news' outlets, where truth is intentionally skewed, hidden or muddied, with the intent of attracting the most eyeballs.
Interesting; that clears things up. Thanks!
Is it just me or does HN seem to have a few too many book recommendation posts, complete with Amazon referral links?
NetBSD builds on Windows (under cygwin). It has not been tested recently, but even if it is slightly broken it can be fixed.
Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as a kid. I mean that console looks great even by today’s standards :)
It's impressive that only a quarter of the links are affiliate links.
Heard of a guy named Bernie Sanders?
We absolutely should not throw up our hands. To some extent, I appreciate that Google and Facebook are at least aware of the issue and want to act on it. My skepticism is that as a result of these efforts, Google and Facebook will be considered to be biased, inaccurate, and no longer trustworthy. There is already a lot of animosity towards Silicon Valley companies as it is.

I certainly hope that if there is 70% of the population this can still help, that it accomplishes that goal without making the other 30% even worse.
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And that's kind of what I expect from a news aggregator. Perfect addition really.
IIRC, the concern was in the details of newlib's allocator. Its sbrk looks for a linker symbol, then starts slicing memory off of that address. There were worries that unless we were careful, it might stomp on FreeRTOS. (These worries could have been unfounded, but we didn't look into it deeply. We only dynamically allocate at startup, so we'd prefer FreeRTOS's heap_1.c anyways.)
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> There are no advertisements

But some of the links are affiliate links. I don't have a problem with this, but if you're going to make a big deal about not having ads or sponsorship, then I think you should have mentioned this too.
You lose copyright if you fail to put a notice on it? I thought that wasn't the case and you have copyright on something as soon as you create it.

Proving you have copyright can be another matter...
Here you go:https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/politifa... ,and this one:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414434/politifact-and-m...
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There's tape of Merkel telling Zuckerberg to censor migrant crimes on Facebook.
Read the article, look at the screen shots.

Articles are being tagged with things like

'Fact Check', 'Opinion' and 'In depth'
It likely changes with the party in control (i.e. members of the party in control won't spend much effort fact checking their own and fact checking a minority group doesn't matter much).
I have friends who blindly spout nonsense from the right and left sides. I would postulate that both do to a similar extent, and it depends on the issue.
If you can guarantee a rate of return, getting money from any bank sounds easy. And if take rate is 60%, then those that take the offer have to pay 100%/60%=166% of what they would have payed with a 100% take rate. Of course that requires estimating the take rate, but that's an everyday buisiness problem.
to mentally subjugate them.

This is a daring proposal. What you are essentially saying is that we could simply walk into another country, tell the population: "Hey we are better than you, do as I tell you" ... and voila, we rule them.

It really doesn't work this way. If you don't believe me, try your scheme on your neighbours. Report back.
More like 80 - https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/02/03/daniel-dales-d...
How is the DMCA more forgiving than the original system?
Alternatively: paying close attention to it and leveraging it for selfish ends.
The point is that saying someone or something is "American" shouldn't cause one to assume it's from or of the US.
Thanks, I'll put something together.,
No it wasn't, the developer probably knew exactly what they were doing.
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So I get a screen with 8 colored boxes. Until I get told anything about security, how it uses my data, how it secures my data, anything, I'm not going to unblock my camera and/or phone.

It would be nice to have a link to some sort of "About" page. Until there is, I won't be using it.
zoulasc is the author of the article. So I don't know what to think anymore.
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Methods in ruby only have the bang if there's another version of the method and this one might surprise you.

Push and pop don't have it because they mutate the array like they do in almost every non-hardcore-functional language, so that's the expected behavior.

Things like map! and reject! have them because there _is_ another version, and _this_ one might bite you. It has nothing to do with side-effects or immutability per se, that's just the most common case.
Ah, you're right - I actually have one and forgot that's how it works!
The majority of TV media routinely engages in "just honest enough so you can't sue me" reporting. They consistently misrepresent the facts and spin things to their agendas.

Now your university educated will call it filtering/magnifying/selective truth/implementation of propoganda models (see: Chomsky)

Your average person just says "they lie!" And "fake news".

When dealing with organizations as fundamentally dishonest as the corporate media this is the most you can expect from Joe public.
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Most of the book is giving examples of different mindsets - Dweck more or less gives examples so that you are able to identify them yourself. She also gives a few practical steps you can take to apply more of a growth attitude
Wasn't the whole point of Google replacing things like Yahoo directories, curated manually, with fully automated algorithms? Being able to find quality information on "Bill Clinton" algorithmically and not settle for the page "Bill Clinton Sucks" as their early paper discussed? And aren't we in the age of AI, everything is solved even more now with NNs than it was with PageRank?

Why then prop up human-chosen sources like snopes and politifact? Is the AI too dumb or does it hold the wrong political opinions?
Not agreeing the the OP here, but your assertion that "Half your country was \"made\" on the backs of slaves" is wrong.

While slavory was a horrific practice in the US, GB, France, the Barbary states, etc... it has nothing to do with the rise of the US anymore than it could be applied to the rise of the other entities I listed.
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Except then nonsense like the "PewDiePie is a nazi" articles happens (originally WSJ but then propagated by other "reputable" newspapers) and it becomes obvious even "trustworthy" sources aren't reliable.

All media is biased because all media is gathered and edited by biased people (or as I like to call them: people). The only thing fact checking can help cutting down on is actual fake news -- hoaxes and blatantly obvious lies.

The "fake news" label however is applied so broadly now that you can have two contrasting reports standing side by side calling each other fake news when neither side is able to report on the full picture and both sides skew the few factoids they have in accordance with their biases or use inflammatory language.

I have yet to see a journal or reporter who consistently reports facts as presented while checking for authenticity and motive. It seems like certain organisations have learned that they can bypass a lot of accountability by "leaking" information anonymously rather than using official press releases (e.g. the "intelligence" sources during the late stages of the presidential election campaigning, none of which any agency seems to consider worth hunting down as a security risk like any of the real "leakers" before).

The closest I've seen is a constant chorus of "we don't know the specifics yet", which predictably doesn't perform well when competing with "news" sources that just forward unsubstantiated tweets and anonymous "eyewitness accounts".
How will chatbots solve day-to-day problems in Africa?
Thanks - Link for the interested [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-...]
I always loved the Apple G3 Powerbook for it's design. It has the silhouette of womens hips and is a piece of simplistic beauty. Also loved the two shades of spy-black they used for the body :-)
> 90% of the enthusiastic young people end up broke

The median salary for a "high-tech" worker in the United States with 1 to 4 years' experience is about $70,000 [1]. That's almost 60% higher than the median American family's $43,500 household income [2].

[1] http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=High-Tech/Salar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
Hashtags and all_caps are mostly out of place on Hacker News and here they add little or more likely detract from the submission.

Good luck.
Better education + a chance for everyone to travel the world and get to know "the other side" would solve a lot of your problems.

It would take a couple of generations though.
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You can significantly lie in your narrative by choosing what to fact check.
Do men get badly treated in tech simply for being men? Or is it the generic bad treatment of employees?
Google of all companies has no moral authority to be "filtering" anything based on "facts", given that they were shown to manipulate search auto-completes with political bias.