skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While hiring a ton of people to fact-check would be one solution, that obviously wouldn't be very scalable. I think the problem lies in google's algorithm. They seem to be pulling answers from well-visited sites that may purport to have an answer to these questions. Quantity of visits does not equate to truthfulness. What Google should at the very least do is whitelist certain publications for answers to pretty simple stuff like encyclopedia britannica or wikipedia. More complex stuff maybe they could source academic journals and certain newspapers. But throwing caution to the wind and hoping that the web crawler knows best really will hinder their ability to be a source for gaining knowledge.

What's weirder to me is that it seemed like they were going with my proposed route for a pretty long time and only recently starting providing dopey answers. Maybe its part of a grander experiment they're doing to vet question answering AI?
Agree. Have you noticed that their phones also suck now? I am locked in their eco system, but I can tell, the quality of software is just not there any more.
I don't understand how that applies to a minor political disagreement on which governmental level a police department should operate on.

Maybe I misunderstood this article as I'm not American, but I really couldn't see how this had anything to do with 'intellectual curiosity'. Can you explain it?
The intercept is a (if not the ) prime example of journalism.
Thanks for this. I had a subset of this list already blocked but didn't realize it had grown this much.
The AppArmor profile provided by Ubuntu/Distro is likely not going to be very restrictive.

Also modern versions of Office already run in a sandbox on Windows (AppContainer?) so how much are you really gaining?
The way to do the first one in Finder is to start type d o c, as you might expect.

Typing the same letter a second time in finder will go to the last file starting with that letter, which could be a handy feature. But d, down, down, down seems almost as good a d d d.
As Expected, Online Sellers Are the REAL Winner This FESTIVE Season
Meh. I think you fail to account for the conversational drift in the meaning of fake news. The quick response was to the pile of pure click bait websites pushing stories like pizza-gate, claims that Clinton was having interns murdered, and so on. After the election, I was writing to electors in the state I grew up in, and found they were actually re-sharing these kinds of stories on their Facebook pages. As a protective measure, the Breitbarts of the world responded by calling everything else fake news, and diluting the meaning of the term.

Apparently they successfully persuaded a Chomsky fan that the term was meaningless?
Hey there, those are great questions! First to answer your security questions. We're using KernelCare, which is like Ksplice. It keeps all our host kernels updated with no reboots needed.

OpenVZ, when used properly, provides us with massive performance gains along with the flexibility of "live scaling." Since we're providing containers, our customers can scale up to a larger plan with zero downtime. Their RAM and disk resources are available immediately after choosing the next package (additional cores require a reboot).
> Is the amount of value speculators capture proportional to the efficiency gains?

Yes.

> If there were less or no speculation, what would be the net result?

You would have more housing shortages and more excess housing.
Yes, there was an issue with someone nuking the compiler box, and we're working on fixing the demo up.

This does more than LPs, it lets you formulate GPs, which are a way of doing non-linear analytical optimization. See here for more: https://gpkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gp101.html#what-is-a-...
Per the sibling comment, your experience is not upheld by the data. But that does not mean you're making an invalid observation, just that you have to be careful with your conclusions.

There has always been a privacy sensitive cohort in the population, and they have been moving off Facebook, however I can tell you from marketing to them that they are a small fraction of the bulk of the world :-(.

As Facebooks user population has doubled the 'kind' of place changes, and that causes people who were there to sometimes become disillusioned while the 'new' people love it. I got to watch this experience first hand in the changing population of Sunnyvale. New apartment buildings (vociferously opposed by long time residents in less dense housing) have attracted new people to Sunnyvale who really like the experience and the vibrancy of a denser down town. Some older folks move out, and then new people move in, and for them, Sunnyvale has "always been like this". No doubt in 20 years they will be griping about something as well. The point is that communities are a function of who is there and who isn't. And as people arrive and people leave the community changes but the overall vibrancy of the community isn't dictated by what people who used to live here think about it. Remember the Yogi Barra quote "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."

The bottom line is that everyone in your city can leave Facebook and its a drop in the bucket with respect to the population that are there. It is only when you have year over year declines can you really say that Facebook is 'dying.'
1. The article's headline seems misleadingly sensational: a news article on a leak of 1.37b records from somewhere will be released tomorrow, NOT the records themselves will leak tomorrow.

2.

> 1.4 billion identity leak story incoming Monday morning.

> He later offered a teaser of the leak, also reducing the number of identities by 30,000.

1.4b minus 1.37b is 30,000,000.
What makes you think that "advanced NLP algorithms" can distinguish true statements from false ones? They're not even close.

You'd have to dramatically simplify the scope of the problem to make it not require artificial general intelligence.

The "Fake News Challenge" [1] is the first attempt I know of to seriously evaluate NLP that could eventually be able to fact-check real-world statements, and the current task is about stance detection, because the goal of fact-checking is not considered attainable yet.

[1] http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/
I'm wondering how this compares to Xtext[1], which is another framework for developing domain specific languages. Xtext feels more approachable to me, but maybe that's because there appears to be a lot more documentation and tooling.

For example, the docs on Xtext's grammar language[2] seem very intuitive to me, even though I'm not experienced in compilers or language design. I don't have quite the same intuition when looking over the AnyDSL docs[3]. Maybe the Xtext docs are just more goal-oriented, i.e. "Five simple steps to your first language".

[1] https://eclipse.org/Xtext/index.html
[2] https://eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/301_grammarlanguage....
[3] https://github.com/AnyDSL/anydsl/wiki/Tutorial
> There are plenty of places where the threat level against journalists is equivalent to the US and quite a few where it is actually less.

While your point is well taken, I haven't seen any US administration execute a journalist for quite a while.

Russia and China don't have quite so much restraint. And most of the petty dictatorships and theocracies make Russia and China look perfectly reasonable.

The fact that the US is not a bastion of moral rectitude does not automatically grant moral equivalence to bad or worse actors.

I am perfectly capable of condemning the actions of the US government and working to make it better even while acknowledging that it is better than most and worse than some.

"But he does it, too!" is not a valid argument for justification. But neither is it a valid reason to refrain from reasoned comparison.
Under Steve Jobs's leadership, no less.
Wow just wow.
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How would one go about blocking their domains? Is that a router config thing?
> You actually think the trial should not be allowed to go forward?

Actually, yes. If you filed a case on something so flimsy and it collapses, the case should get dismissed.

It would sure make prosecutors go the extra mile to make sure that there is concrete evidence before filing charges.

Simply filing charges can destroy someone's life. The prosecution should have to put something at risk when they do so.
It's The Register. Accuracy is not one of their strong points.
At least where I live (Helsinki region in Finland), the main issue with empty apartments is not that they are bought as vehicles of speculation. It's that there's not that much vacancy to speak of. The numbers are inflated in the discourse, often ignoring several factors:

1) in a rental market, there is a natural vacancy rate of a few percent due to people moving every few ears, and that

2) apartments that are in statistics "vacant" are not really vacant or empty; they are merely apartments where no person has a permanent address - there still may be people living there. Workers from elsewhere in the country who work in the city for the week but have their permanent address elsewhere with their family; undocumented migrants, etc.

3) apartments belong to elderly or sick people (cancer etc) who are in a care home or equivalent, but don't want to give up their home because they hope to be able to return, or to old people who clearly are not going to return but whose heirs cannot sell the apartment until the owner has passed away. If it were rented out, the care payments would increase with the amount of the rent income, and the only thing owners would get from renting out is risk of a bad tenant.

Yes, no one is living in that apartment just now. Still, it's not primarily a "vehicle for speculation".
I'm an Android user and I pay for things (?) and apps. Are you saying that I'm the only Android user who pays for apps and "things"? Or is your statement just a gratuitous cliche?
I meant Course 6, which can be 6-1 (EE) or 6-2 (EECS). Given that there are many 6-2 majors out there who say they've majored in computer science, it might come as a surprise to others who don't understand the MIT curriculum that a "computer science" major at MIT does not need to take this class.
> If the site mentioned in the article had 150,000 members as they say, that's a lot of people to lock up for years for pointing a browser at a url.

You don't stumble on "kiddy stuff" on TOR accidentally. You actively seek it. 150.000 is a lot of pedos in the wild.
People paying for assets then not using them.

I don't get this meme on how this could be bad?

I guess because peoples lives often suck and they need to defer blame?

Blaming 'rich' people for why you can't afford to live in the exact spot you want is easier?

These people are subsidising the rest. They are paying year long taxes for assets they don't use.

I really don't get this groupthink.
Exactly, they handle things they are legally required to.
(reaching now) - i wonder that fb mightn't be a phenomenon that transforms the "we" that we're so used to into the "us" that forms the basis of super-human organizations.

that this ain't a similar transition that might've occurred as singular-celled organisms became co-opted into the multicellular, and the multicellular became co-opted into communities, and those communities became co-opted into cultures, and those cultures became co-opted into...

Its a laddering fractal up into scale-similar, and self-organizing, beings...
I saw estimates here that 10% of current US energy use would suffice to start. And this would be entirely automated, using methods not that different from JWST, except in scale. And arguably, it's less complicated than beaming energy back to Earth. But still, those could be parallel efforts.
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>They were passing debate questions to their favorite candidate

Sort of. Rather, Donna Brazile, a high-ranking Democrat at the time, was also working as a CNN analyst. She got access to general debate topics and sent them to Clinton's camp.

CNN fired her almost immediately upon learning this, and said:

>"CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate." [0]

Brazile doubled down, criticized CNN, and said her only regret was getting caught. [0]

>“My conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is very clear [...] if I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity.”

CNN is not at fault here. Brazile violated her contract and general ethical standards to support her party. I'm no fan of CNN, but they did not leak questions intentionally.

Sure, CNN could be lying and Brazile could be agreeing to take the fall. But considering they both shittalked each other in the media after she was fired, and CNN's immediate condemnation of her and her actions, then that's a pretty hefty conspiracy theory claim. To me, this just seems like the Democratic leadership wasn't afraid to play a little dirty - all of their own doing.

>claiming reading leaked document is only legal for the media

Who did this? Every major media source, including the left-leaning ones, openly discussed and sometimes provided links to the Wikileaks archives.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...
> I think the whole "Fake News" is the start of a new thing.

Yeah, people like you trying to discredit the media so that your demagogue can stay in charge without opposition.
How do they define active though? Does that just mean someone that logs in once during that month? Admittedly, that's still something, but it's not the kind of engagement that will excite advertisers.
Your ability to reverse engineer is the only thing that makes you stand above a fanboy blindly trusting a press release when discussing ios's security model.
Anybody actually have an assessment if this library is actually accurate?

The problem with most computational geometry libraries is that they tend to be 1) riddled with bugs, 2) slow and 3) covered by stupid licenses.

The license is nice. So, how is the accuracy and speed?
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Maybe I'm stating the obvious or the Mac guys will scoff at this, but I've long enjoyed the balance that Linux strikes together with KDE, nowadays being really easy to install and maintain and looking good at it.
Many people commute to Los Angeles by highway for >1 hour each way every day (for some, it’s 2 hours each way), with much of the trip stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. This is an absolutely miserable waste of human time, gasoline, CO2 emissions and other air pollution, automobile construction, road construction/maintenance, and so on.

If our municipal planning put denser housing (doesn’t need to be Hong Kong here, just 5-story apartment buildings would be fine) and denser employment space next to train/subway stations, so that more people could live within walking / transit distance of their workplaces, we could save huge amounts of resources and human happiness.

Empty highways are amazing for automobile speed and flexibility. But highways scale very poorly to higher amounts of traffic. They’re great for cross-country road trips. But for routine commuting, especially once they start filling up, they’re pretty well the worst available option.

And that isn’t even getting into the harmful effect the highway has on the neighborhoods it goes through. For nearby residents, a highway is like a combination of the inaccessibility of a river + the noise and air pollution of a factory, running 24–7.
It depends, lots of these experiments result in better bounds on theories. LUX for example pushed down the cross-section for WIMP dark matter below the previous measurement. That in itself is an advancement, with implications on what theories for dark matter are possible.
> unless CPU speeds start doubling again, we're never going to be able to even semi-accurately emulate anything past the Xbox 360/PS3 generation

Luckily all the new consoles use x86_64 processors for their main processors, so no low level emulation will be required.
>Who did this?

The claim that "reading leaked document[s] is only legal for the media" isn't what was actually said, but this clip is probably what parent is referring to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A
Yeah, agreed. I use Mint nowadays, too. I started a couple of years before you did on Linux. It was painful until about Ubuntu 7.04. And then it was very slick pretty much from that day forward. Funny story: I built a gaming machine recently (specifically for Star Citizen), and Windows 10 failed to find my (onboard ASUS motherboard) NIC, and I had to iterate through a few versions of driver for my ATI/AMD 7790 GPU before I found one that was stable with Windows. I realized that day that I hadn't actually had a single hardware problem on Linux for something like eight years. It was a funny and strange feeling, hitting a hardware brick wall with Windows 10, of all OSes. Then you've got all those really annoying things about it, like the whole update thing. I paid for a "Home" (or whatever) license, but when I realized I couldn't stop Windows from crippling itself by automatically forcing updates of the fucking GPU driver I decided to go back to a pirated version of "Ultimate" (or whatever it's called) just so I could keep this shitty OS from killing itself. LOL!
"""The construction cost of the printed house amounted to $10134, which is approximately $275 per square meter, taking in account that partners have provided the highest quality materials"""

Due to the wording of the sentence I'm not sure if the material is included in the calculation or not. But assuming prices going down and technology improving a building like that for 10-20k in 24h is an interesting proposition for on demand housing (even if it is just destroyed afterwards).
Embedded sponsoring by Samsung aside I think the wall printed to match the curvature of the TV is an interesting example. This could be interesting for events/marketing booths etc.

Edit: This could also be very interesting for Hollywood for set building :)
It's a common misconception that the moon is easier to get to. As far as rocket launches are concerned, getting to the moon is as difficult as getting to Mars. Worse, the moon has no atmospheric drag to assist with landing. The only way the moon is better is it's closer, which is almost a moot point because all the difficulty is tied up in getting off of Earth. And unless dramatic changes in our space flight capabilities take place, it's no easier to mount a timely rescue mission to the moon than it is to Mars - by the time we launch anything it'll be weeks or months after any accident takes place and well beyond the length of time stranded astronauts could survive.

Beyond that, the moon is generally much less suited for long term habitation than Mars is for several reasons. I won't get into details about that right here (unless you want me to) and Mars isn't exactly a cakewalk either, but the moon poses a more significant challenge in many ways.

That said, I welcome any kind of manned missions/outposts/colonies etc, whether the be on the moon or Mars or somewhere else entirely. I just believe that the payoff for starting on Mars could be much greater than doing the same on the moon.
What job market do you live in?

It is a sellers market. I get recruited every single day. Any company that disrespects me and wastes my time isn't going to be very successful at convincing me to work there.

Developers are the ones with the power in this market, and I have no problem throwing this power around.
There are some drivers for her Asus N73SV, but they don't support 1600x900. I may be looking in a wrong place, but I find it hard to understand why Windows 10 does not support such popular resolution out-of-the-box.
My wife has been freaking out too. I've been calling it PTSD -- President Trump Stress Disorder. (Not to belittle her suffering -- just to try to find a bit of humor in a frightening time.)
The keyword is self-organising. In order for evolution to work, partial information decentralisation is key.
Yes. But why people buy books is what I don't understand. At least for college and if it's not something you want to own for the future.

Throughout most of my semesters I just rented the books. Much cheaper than buying.
Sounds like exactly the same situation as PayPal, and there's no way for me as a customer to check who's actually getting the donation, right?
Good questions. I'm also interested and I'm planning to test it out first thing tomorrow. But from the FAQs, this project seemed to be around since 1997 (not C++ back then though) so I'm guessing it should be pretty stable.
Thanks for the link to Algo. First time coming across it.

I was under the impression that PrivateInternetAccess was well regarded, but this link [1] which is in the blog post linked above was an eye opener.

[1] https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/1f3bc4d889b02b35d8aa
I just tried a version of this as a test for myself. I was able to create a very serviceable minesweeper clone in pygame, finishing up at almost exactly the 1 hour mark.

I didn't have time to include a game-over animation, an in-game timer, or a way to select different settings, but the core mechanics were all there.

Pygame is a very nice environment for games programming when you want to do something fairly simple.
For gaming, I will be the first to admit Linux has a way to go yet and the coverage is much better on Windows. It is certainly moving in the right direction though, and with recent developments such as vulkan.
It's an awesome tool. I love it. Though my writing get lost one I press "Done". It will be better if I got the option to read my writing later or browse through others writing to draw some inspiration. Thumbs up!
For an introduction to computational geometry in general, I've enjoyed these lecture notes from Leonidas Guibas [1]. There are some more specific class notes at [2].

[1] http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs268-16-fall/Notes/tor...

[2] http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs268-16-fall/notes.htm...
When Windows sends WM_CLOSE for any reason, it will wait for some time for the app to react (not necessarily close itself, just process the message). But if it does not react soon enough, Windows will mark the app as hanging, and you'll get that standard wait-or-close dialog.

However, Alt+F4 translating to WM_CLOSE is also handled by the app message loop - i.e. Windows sends WM_KEYDOWN events for those keys, and when they get to the event loop, it's supposed to call TranslateMessage. That one normally handles WM_KEYDOWN -> WM_CHAR translation, but it will also handle any shortcuts, and this includes Alt+F4. So if the app is hanging, messages aren't pumped, and the shortcut doesn't work. To send WM_CLOSE, you'd need to use the close button on the window.

So if the app does close on Alt+F4, it was, at the minimum, pumping messages and invoking TranslateMessage on them.
Well, that's pretty bad.

A charitable interpretation would be that the scriptwriter, or Cuomo, genuinely believed this to be true and so were ignorantly trying to give helpful advice to the audience. Maybe not, though.

Regardless, both of the grandparent post's criticisms (and I'd really only merit this one criticism as particularly valid) apply to CNN, which has consistently proved itself to be one of the worst mainstream outlets of the decade. So I wouldn't take that as a huge indictment of the media in general. He'll have to provide more examples than that.
Pretty sure I saw it listed on U.S. Netflix streaming, recently.
UNIX being part of OS X is a historical accident, Apple just wanted to save themselves from Copland's failure.
> Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately