skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a decade ago, a 'startup' meant a group of enthusiastic young people wanting to affirm themselves by creating some cool technology which will change the world, trying to convince people with money to 'invest'.

Today, a 'startup' means a group of people with money hiring enthusiastic youngsters to implement something. They bet their youth, health, relationships and mental health to work for that something in exchange for 'funding rounds' and the chance to be the next Xberg.

Unfortunately, more or less 90% of the enthusiastic young founders end up broke, depressed and resigned as a consequence. I know this because I've been the founder of a startup in the 90% club. Took me years to recover financially, mentally and personally.

The quiet winners in this case are the big corporations, who's technology and services have been paid for with seed/venture money given to startups. The investors loose their money, but no worries, because they have other groups of young people who are doing the same thing.

But of course there's a bright side to this - the 10% winners. Those that go on to transform the world around us.
Again, I've been there - I was lucky to work for a startup that eventually made a multi-billion dollar exit.
And change the world it did !

But now I'm looking at this changed world around me - what kind of reality are we living in ? We're constantly inside these cool shiny gadgets which can do incredible things, while the world around us is disintegrating - climate is going nuts, crazy politicians are getting elected and dystopia is settling in with clouds of war and destruction forming on the horizon.

How did we get to this ? How come all these young and enthusiastic dreams morphed into dystopia ? Make no mistake - technology that you and I have been developing is very much a cause of what the outside world looks like today - didn't we 'change the world' ?

And since most of this technology was born out of startups, we can conclude that the 'startup culture' was the precursor to the dystopia we're currently in.

This has to change. It has to at least go back to 'young people solve world problems with money as a means' instead of 'young people do something for the sake of hitting the jackpot'.
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We can't be sure, and they won't always be perfectly honest, but if you're billing yourself as a fact checker, you're trying to appeal to people who are interested in the truth in the first place.

You can apply some spin and get away with it (and this will happen) but if you tell flat out lies, people will notice.

This isn't a panacea, but it is a step in the right direction.
No, Fact Checking articles will be pushed up. People here are reading this wrongly. The articles aren't marked as checked, but as themselves being fact checks (of the overall story).
> Anonymous sources, how do you "fact check" them?

Reputation.

Some journals, and some reporters, have earned my benefit of doubt. They tend to be--where I've been able to verify--direct to their anonymous sources and do everything in their power to verify what was said. This process takes effort, for the journalist and the reader.
My main concern is the family collection of photos, video and scanned papers.

I use a combination of cloud backup (Jottacloud), local disk mirror and dumping a yearly batch of BD-Rs in a bank box.
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Moving the debate to evaluating accuracy is better than what we were headed towards. The conclusion stops being a race-to-the-bottom "can we even know anything?" and becomes "how can we perfect our knowledge?"
An important point to note is that you get your standard 2 year manufacturer warrant and then the following 4 years is covered by the seller. so for example if you get an iPhone through Vodafone and have a problem 3 years in it's Vodafone that deals with it, not Apple. I say it's important as the standard of customer service can vary widely between Apple and some retailers so if speed of repair is a priority relying on the 6 year warranty may not be your best solution.
Same here. Extremely annoying and I hit this often.
How to re-engage users who opt out push notifications?
We have a huge amount of fermented food next door to Vietnam in the Chinese province of Yunnan, too.

If you are interested in fermentation, check out some of the foodtech torrents recently posted on TPB. Two academic books were specifically about different types of fermented foods in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Unfortunately I'm traveling now so can't identify which torrent it was, but if you seek ye shall find (~3-4 weeks ago?).
>The problem is this mentality is one that produces unmaintainable software in the long run.

What mentality? Wanting more expressive power than Go?

Then Haskell for one, or even OcamL and Ada, must produce some very unmaintainable code...

>In the case of Go, the simplicity of the language can be frustrating when it comes to expressing one's ideas in "clever" ways; but the code you write may be easily grokked by a junior developer that started with Go last week.

Only at the micro level (directly checking some lines of code). Grokking what 10 lines do easily doesn't mean you'll more easily grok the overall design, especially if lack of expression has you writing 1000 lines (and copy pasting e.g. for "generic" code) what could take 100 in a more expressive language (and still be perfectly readable).

In fact, the main, sure fire, correlation they found for number of bugs in studies of coding, is first and foremost lines of code (regardless of language).

>It's hard to say Go is poorly designed, because it does what it was meant to do extraordinarily well

It also violates the law of least surprise and orthogonality of concepts several times (e.g. special casing a generic "make", etc).

>As for Rust, without all the ceremony you cannot summon the demons that grant you perfect memory safety without paying for GC as well as absence of data races.

Sure, but as I don't care for GC pauses or perfect memory safety, I don't have much of a use case for it, hence wanting a middle ground between Go and Rust.
Congress Can’t Seem to Fix This 30-Year-Old Law Governing Your Electronic Data
So you're arguing in favor of censorship?

Who decides who gets ignored in "vile, pernicious, institutionalized ways"?
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It's not like we are starting in a place where people do a reasonable job of judging information.

I remember sitting in a library years ago as two goofballs met each other for the first time and immediately extended each other more credibility than they gave to the institutions they proceeded to ramble about. It was fascinating to watch.
Sure, but the cost of free press is that basically anyone can publish whatever crap they want.

Fact checking is a good tool (critical thinking and self-verification would be better). What can save time over time is to know which publications continously publish the most verifiable truths. Albeit always reading with vigilance.

In what way would fact checking be polarizing?
Whether Google is good or not is irrelevant to whether your particular accusation is baseless.

The perception of whether Google is good or not is all that matters. This is how media and mass psychology works. This isn't about fact-checking stories. It's about using Google's brand to deem specific stories to be real or fake.
Yeah, been meaning to try it more, was thrown off by the lack of good tooling/documentation initially.
Bad move. A search engine should not be valuing certain websites more just because they proclaim to be "fact checkers". For example, politifact is usually trusty but some of their judgements are highly questionable. But Google will trust them and display their link prominently, even when it might be total bullshit.
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How often do you work out of LTE range? RDP is very usable if you need to use Windows for work.
the point of the article is to show something people may not know or may not see for themselves. I didn't know there are people living in these facility.
Definitely! But then I'm originally from Lehi...

What skillset?
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I think the site looks great and will be very informative for people with a wide range of experience. As a person with something deployed to literally every provider you've listed (and using most of the ancillary tools as well) I'd say you've done a pretty accurate job describing them.

EDIT:
One enhancement I might suggest is that another way of listing hosting, instead of by $/hr or $/mo might be to suggest an instance size with estimated cost based on project type. IE: Wordpress (or generic) CMS hosting, Static website, Bitcoin Mining, etc. For the truly novice they may take the suggestions at the $20/mo price point because that seems affordable but in reality they could be running at free or $5.

You could probably cascade it all the way down. For a static homepage you may just suggest a Free AWS instance, Monitoring, and Version control. For CMS you may suggest the whole stack, etc.
Through that outlet, theoretically, sure. Wouldn't stop it though.
I should clarify.. I have 32 on my iMac and use my mbp for remote Photoshop. It has 16Gb I believe. I want to move to just one device vs. two with desktop monitor for home - not going to do it with current 2016 MBPs as my primary.

Fwiw I don't like the fake click on the trackpads or iPhone 7's either. Already started moving away when pine 7 came out - went with Pixel xl and couldn't be happier.
> Apple have increased the native resolution/scaling in comparison to my previous MBP. It’s now practical to work with two half-width, adjacent windows on this laptop’s display. Something that never seemed workable on its predecessor.2 This fact alone makes for some serious productivity wins.

You could actually always set it to do this; they've just changed the defaults. A surprising number of users seem to be unaware of this, though.
The articles aren't being marked as Fact Checked, they are being only tagged as being Fact Checking articles.
This JITs & executes basic blocks but that doesn't seem correct with interrupt handling. Interrupts can of course occur in the middle of a basic block, which isn't handled right now from what I can tell?

It is a difficult problem to get cycle correct interrupts, no doubt.
Love this book. Especially after Bill gates gave it such a great review
more than a little over priced , apple suck wish people would stop encouraging them
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Only court can prove that something is fake or not fake. Other solutions are vulnerable.

Extreme example: Russian plane was shoot at Black sea in 2001, and Ukraine is blamed by every article in internet you can find, but not by court.

I'm 100% sure that every fact-check organization, except court, will confirm mainstream «fact».
"The story of the remaining humans fighting back would be much more interesting. How can you defeat an enemy where learning too much about it makes you automatically lose?"

See the stories under the heading "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2015)": http://www.scp-wiki.net/qntm-s-author-page

It's part of a larger universe, but I think it suffices to point out that in the larger fictional universe in question, the organization that the website is told from the point of has ready and established access to drugs called "amnestics", which can wipe memories in much the same style as the Men in Black. The rest you can probably work out.
But has the news gone a day without telling a verifiable lie? I read an article yesterday running down the list of organizations (quoted and linked) mocking Trump for referring to a terrorist attack the night before in Sweden. The full transcript shows Trump never mentioned a terrorist attack.

It's not that Trump is so trustworthy it's just that one person can't possibly lie as much as thousands.
Sitting might not be so bad for you after all
Let me know when it becomes illegal to start up a news aggregator.

Until then, it's whoever makes better news aggregators.
Creating a site preview like in slack (using aiohttp)
His comment was specifically addressing all genders.

Irrespective, sleeping with coworkers is not a smart choice for anyone and the issue supersedes womens' right to "conduct their personal relationships."
We always have to be wrong, but we can bunch up all the ways we can be wrong so they're always close to being right. Each way to be right will have a few ways to be wrong as neighbours, so even if we're wrong, we aren't wrong by much.
Then they are not fixing the right problem.
I might misunderstand what kind of warnings you are talking about, but I saw OP talking about compiler warnings during the build process and you about GTK application runtime warnings. They are different, and in the context of an application it's... well, not necessariliy good, but normal. Runtime warnings and unexpected input is at least input the programmer is aware of. I'd be more scared of an app that lacks runtime warnings.
I have around 100 accounts saved in my password manager so it is impossible now to be without passw. manager. I'm using SaferPass > www.saferpass.net
But that's not what they're doing! Did you read my whole post? They are not marking articles as checked, they are just tagging them as being Fact Checking articles.
Facts are falsifiable claims (e.g. there was a mass shooting in Sweden last night), not opinions where there's no objective notion of correctness. One casualty of the current political environment is that people forget what they were taught in school about the difference between facts and opinions.
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For my personal devices, I also use Syncthing.. but I do not keep revisions. Instead, I have push only from Laptop (etc) and on a server running ZFS I take automatic hourly, daily, weekly and monthly snapshots which are auto-purged set on my retention strategy. It is much more efficient on disk space.

Occasionally, I will run rsync across the device by hand just to check consistency - but so far it has been reliable.
They mentioned context, not time of day.
Whoa. I have a bad feeling this will lead to antitrust suits.

Its highly suspicious its launching in france and germany while their populist movements are growing.
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Fact checking is a good tool (critical thinking and self-verification would be better).

Humans don't act this way and don't respond to it. The media isn't out to inform people through content, but to program people through delivery.

The only result of this will be to have people say "SEE! GOOGLE SAYS IT'S TRUE/FAKE!" And they'll share the headline on Facebook/Twitter and be done with it.

People don't act rationally anymore, especially when it comes to media.

Media outlets have agendas. The press hasn't been free in a long time.
https://medium.com/@SarahRRunge/amazon-the-washington-post-a...
Interesting from the perspective of a gedanken experiment, but there are obviously much more efficient, less expensive ways to transmit data.
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Trump has 3,643 websites that range from TrumpEmpire.com to TrumpFraud.org
More seriously, on a personal level, I run Deja Dup on my Mint laptop to a USB disk that's LUKS-encrypted. Of course, that's not enough, so I have a script running on my home DHCP server - when a DHCP lease is granted, if the MAC matches my laptop's ethernet adapter, it runs rsync over SSH to my user folder (on a RAID1) on the server, doing a one-way sync. From there, I have an LTO3 tape drive that I got cheap on eBay, and I dump the folder to tape with tar weekly (cycling through the tapes, of course).

Anything irreplaceable, I keep in Dropbox, mirrored to every machine I have access to. If I were to manually delete the folder by accident, I've got 7 days to restore it on the Free tier. And if Dropbox itself does a GitLab, chances are very high that I have one of my machines with a recent sync powered off, so booting that up without network will get me a reasonably up-to-date folder.

It's a lot of moving parts, but everything is usually nicely in sync.

I recently reinstalled my Mint laptop and restored from the Deja Dup backup, so I'm reasonably confident it would work in a DR scenario.
And what's the difference?
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But that also illustrates why economic inequality is getting blamed unfairly. Reducing inequality will not produce more hot women or flats in Manhattan/SF. The same number of people will get hot women, it's just that more women will go for dangerous unemployable bad boys and fewer will go for wealthy investment bankers or techies.
'Better' meaning?

Popular? Then you're deciding truth by popularity.
Nothing guarantees that it is zero-overhead, it all depends on the efforts, quality and mood of the C++ compiler. Whereas in C you can at least rely on the fact that even without any complex optimisation it will at worst produce machine code that looks 99% like the C code, because it maps 1 -> 0.99. Good luck telling what is the complexity hidden behind a C++ operator.
Yeah, but this isn't their search site, this is their news site. Google has become more than just a search engine.
I understand this is a UI tool and not a 3D game engine, but it still might be really neat to give designers the ability to use PhysX in their UI animations.
> I also have issues with the esc key though.

First they came for Scroll Lock and I did not speak out -- because who uses Scroll Lock?

Then they came for the PgUp and PgDown keys and I did not speak out -- because I could always use Fn-arrows.

Then they came for Esc and I did not speak out -- because I use Emacs.

Then they came for the whole keyboard -- and there was no way I could write about it.
Bring back alt.NET
What is the future of monitoring Prometheus or icinga2
I just started working on prometheus , I wanted to know what is the future of monitoring
Well, hello there, fellow MISRA warning wrangler!

I think you're right and I usually find MISRA gives decent warnings and solving the warnings is quite instructive. I remember, for example, John Carmack had nice things to say about static code analysis.
That scoring approach sounds just about the same way my teacher scored. If two lines didn't connect perfectly but had a micron long tail sticking out he'd catch it.
Wish this was up and running back in 2003, when the invasion of Iraq started based on fabricated evidence on WMD.
How exactly did Blizzard "blow it" with this design decision?

Using their customers bandwidth to take off some load of their own patch servers during peak times is (imho) a pretty good use of BitTorrent. You can also quite easily disable this feature in their launcher app.
Do you know why it breaks? Because Ubuntu 16.04 just works on my laptop. Things that require one-time technical setup: Function key (screen brightness) and Optimus/bumblebee. I also set up touchegg because Unity hates multi-touch trackpad. But since initial setup I never have to touch anything again, and can upgrade everything via Software Update.

I would say it is no better than Windows at all (since you also need to install correct driver on Windows).
I try to keep my facts in check, any examples of questionable politifact judgements?
The laugh gets me every time.
This is just great for beginners, thanks.
Do you think of posting tips to deploy Anon?
> But Google will trust them

Google will label them as 'Fact Check'.
Also in Europe we usually talk about VAT included prices, while in the US they talk about VAT excluded prices.

I don't know if that's the case here. The only Apple products I have are a 1991 PowerBook and a Macintosh II (first model) I keep as mementos.
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I play the piano and I never use the black keys, except C# once in a while.
I think in these articles it is important to list what level of self-driving car this is. From the article it sounds like a 1 or a 2.

One thing articles like this do bring up is that we may be able to retrofit a lot of existing cars which could shorten the adoption delay caused by people keeping their cars 10+ years.
He's been in office 31 days. What are the 31 lies?
There are about 30% of the population that are totally ignorant not just about facts but about how to even ascertain what the truth is. I'm not sure we should throw up our hands and give up because a sizable percentage of people are hopeless. There are a lot of people who can be helped by that kind of thing.
Related story: I put the game disc for the PS2 game "BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles" into my PC last year to see if there was anything interesting on it, and found several .h and .a files in a subdirectory:

https://s17.postimg.org/itph8rsnz/agatha.png

Note: Despite what this image shows, the text encoding is actually SHIFT-JIS.
I've been thinking about this as well - it seems like it would fit in nicely with other CI jobs. With database backups, for example, you should be able to script the restore procedure and apply some assertions to check it worked. Bonus with this is that you now have a script when you actually need to restore.
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"We’re also launching the fact check tag in these countries on news mode in Search"

So now it's also integrated into Google Search
That's interesting. Not sure it will be interpreted that way by most people, considering how many are interpreting the announcement itself. Even after reading it again and the one announcing the "fact-check" tag, it was still not obvious what they meant until I read your comments in here.

Anyway, the part regarding Facebook still stands, and we are moving in that general direction I believe.
I feel like this is something that maybe should be handled outside of search engines / aggregators themselves. I'm imagining some sort of community around a browser extension - the ability to vote for tags / add comments to any url, using the extension would allow you to see what others think. Would need moderation and would have to really get a critical mass before it would be useful. Perhaps the ability to have multiple "communities" you subscribe to with their own groups and ratings e.g. the "Fact Checkers" community rates this article one way, the "Reddit Politics" community rates it a bit differently, etc.
Many news organizations reported that Trump mentioned a terrorist attack in Sweden the night before. The transcript shows he was ambiguous on what happened the night before.

So in this case would Google mark these news organizations, most of them reputable as far as it's possible to be today, as fact checks even though they apparently hadn't bothered to read the full transcript?
That's one low quality video, and to add insult to injury they're posted on Facebook.

Here's a better quality video on Channel9:

https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-D...

Same start time of ~17:00 mins in.
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Instead of fact checking, they should show opinions from every side of issues across the spectrum.
Not really. My example could just as well be done with any public key crypto system. If you want better examples, see the SO post https://mathoverflow.net/questions/22624/example-of-a-good-z...

But misuse of the term is most likely just because they didn't understand it in the first place. It is well defined, but rather abstract.