skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like there was a study from Stanford, regarding effect on the latest USA ellection:

> Gentzkow and Allcott find that the most widely circulated hoaxes were seen by only a small fraction of Americans. And only about half of those who saw a false news story believed it.

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/18/stanford-study-examines-...
Good and bad.

Setting aside the changing weather patterns (also good and bad), a warmer planet will likely be good for some kinds of life and bad for others.

It will be good, particularly, for vegetation (discussed in this article, the greening of the Siberian tundra). It will also be good for animals which depend on the now more plentiful vegetation and opened up territory. It will be bad for animals that are dependent on the old climate. For humans (ignoring ethics and other concerns over species becoming extinct), it's probably a net positive as this means more arable land and territory as well. Though this may only be temporary.

At sea, it's again a mixed bag. Cold-blooded animals, in particular, are very sensitive to changes in temperature. Most fish and sea creatures are also sensitive to levels of CO2, O2, and acidity. Increasing temperatures and CO2, even if still technically sufficient levels of O2, may render some species infertile or unable to thrive. Increased CO2 and reduced O2 will make large swaths of the ocean uninhabitable by fish and other creatures. The CO2 will help CO2 consuming ocean life, but until a new balance is reached O2 consuming life will likely be greatly harmed. This has major ramifications for people dependent on the ocean for their sustenance or livelihood.

Going back to the tundra and its recent browning described in the article, it's possible (note: totally my hypothesis, not based on any research, this is just a thought experiment based on systems thinking and modeling) that the initial greening was due to abundant local water (frozen in the ground) paired with increasing temperatures. The plants spread, temperatures rose more, creating a positive feedback cycle. However, this also results in less snowfall (or retained snow) meaning the water may not be replenishing at a sufficient rate to sustain the increased local demand by plants. In turn, plants die (the recent browning event). But a browning event doesn't imply that the temperatures will or are dropping. So it's not clear if this will be cyclical, or if it is at what period. Perhaps a new equilibrium will be reached, or new, less demanding, plants will take over. This also assumes something of a closed system, the real world is far more complex than this simple model.

This could be very similar to any other boom/bust cycle in nature or economics. Major initial change causes immediate significant positive results, followed by negative, followed by ??? (neutral, more cycles, who knows yet).
United business-class passengers are drinking too much wine
Could you provide a few examples of left-leaning bias for Snopes or other 'verifiers'? I am genuinely interested in considering items from a political viewpoint that is likely different than mine.
Of course not. But every role has a range, more or less, which is a balance of the value that role creates vs the alternatives in the market. The range is due to factors such as the risk an individual embodies based on previous experience, demonstrable skill, references along with likely ramp up time based on those factors.

To take a silly but illustrative example: if I'm looking for a javascript developer, I don't care if the person I'm interviewing also has a law degree from a top tier school and can craft airtight patent applications even if I may have some use for that skill. I am hiring for a javascript developer. That is the role I need filled. I will offer a salary range based on that need.

It is a silly example but I see the issue so often: someone will apply for a role and then expect to be compensated for their other skills. While, sometimes, it may be worth it to do a bit of management gymnastics and get someone brilliant through the door and find out how to fully leverage their talents later, most of the time that's just wishful thinking on everyone's part.
I don't understand the relevance of nearby high ground. Assuming you can't build levees, doesn't the cost of losing a city come primarily from losing the buildings (which must be rebuilt), not the transport cost of moving items inside the building to a new location? In other words, if your house is in the path of a tornado, learning that there is a nearby patch of land guaranteed not to be hit is not useful.
> Uhhh.. yes.. it's pretty common for the army to be temporarily disbanded for using tanks against the government (ie. orchestrating a coup).

There you go. The tanks weren't removed, the organization was disbanded. Having tanks is not an indicator that an organization will attempt a coup, if having tanks is useful to the normal function of that organization.

At this point, you're making my points for me, so either it's evident to you at this point, or you aren't going to get it (as you're consistently misinterpreting the point), or you're trolling. In any case, I don't see this continuing productively past this point, since I'm just repeating myself.
Looks interesting and will take a look into it. I saw it mentioned alongside Pencil (http://pencil.evolus.vn) when searching for prototyping tools. Sort of reminds me of Visio. Would that be an apt comparison?
The subtle dishonesties you speak of have existed as long as rhetoric. The true fake news is new, and a product of the internet.

Solving the first one is, in my opinion, pretty much impossible on a large scale—it requires critical reading, original research and a great deal of trust in fact sourcing.

Solving the second one is Google's goal here, and it's an important one. The Comet Pizza incident [1] was emblematic of how blatantly fake news can affect real people. Moreover fake news is engaging: it legitimately competes with real news [2]. So yeah, I think the sub-problem is large and efforts to solve it are a big deal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong#Pizzagate_cons...

[2]: http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/16/13659840/facebook-fa...
The platform team does do code review and automated tests, but occasionally something slips through, so they QA release branches as well.

Is there any major app (say, at least 1 million SLOC) which has such good automated tests that they're comfortable shipping master without any manual QA? I'd be really surprised if there is.

Even if a team is totally committed to automating all their testing, there are some big challenges with doing so at scale:

- You run into all kinds of rare bugs (with AOSP, the emulator, host OS, etc.). When I worked at Square our biggest app had ~5 hours of automated tests, and these rare bugs made it very hard to keep our builds stable. I imagine thoroughly testing AOSP would take an order of magnitude longer.

- If you want to test on a variety real phones (which seems critical for AOSP), then testing every master commit is cost prohibitive.

- It's hard to automatically detect graphical glitches. You can take screenshots at certain times and validate that they're pixel perfect, but you might still miss a glitch in between screenshots, e.g. during an animation.
It really depends on what I'm doing. If I'm drawing or walking, for instance, I can do those things and focus on the book. If I'm trying to read something else or program, then it's always a matter of focusing on one or the other, and then it's like you say.

The rewinding bit is why rewinding, bookmarking, and navigation features of audio players are critical to me. I really hate bare-bones audio player interfaces that make it a chore to do any of those things.
> the FCC net neutrality order "imposes intrusive government regulations that won’t work to solve a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority the FCC doesn’t have."

That is an outright lie. Actually, four of them in one sentence! .. Ok, the "intrusive government regulations" part is arguable (at best), but they do work, and they do solve a problem that exists, and, by definition, they do have the authority (these rules clearly give it).

> The net neutrality order also required ISPs to make more specific public disclosures about prices, fees, and data caps.

What is wrong with that, exactly? Do customers not need to know prices? Is it not literally fraudulent to not give this information?
It is substantially different.

One is an administrative hold that can be lifted by the bank. The other is an inter-bank transfer process that maybe has to go through the courts. The reason the person in this article has had such a hard time is that he has to convince more than just his bank that they screwed up because they don't have his money any more.
TensorFlow is a dataflow computation system. Keras is for building neural networks. Each exists at a different level of abstraction.
> The much bigger problem is the subtler dishonesties

Maybe it's a bigger problem, but you're not going to solve dishonesty and you're not going to solve all the cognitive bias and intellectual unsophistication that lets it work. The best you can do is nudge society in a good direction that pays off maybe a generation down the road. Let's focus on stopping our elections from being manipulated since that's a significant easy win in the short term.

> Honest question - has there been any research on how much reach and effect "true" fake news actually has? How big is that particular sub-problem, in reality?

You should watch the open hearing from the Senate intelligence committee from 3/30. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings
It is not propping up your value.

If you interview someone and they ask for X, and you agree to hire them for X, then you have made the decision that he is worth X.

That fact that he did not make X at his last job should have zero effect on his future job.

If you do not think he is worth X, then don't hire him. He is either worth X or not.
> I've seen this sentiment a lot in Chinese-Americans that are not educated in linguistics, along with other self-loathing sentiments.

FWIW, I think Ted Chiang (author of Story of Your Life that Arrival was based on) knows a decent amount on linguistics.

At this point, Chinese characters aren't going to go anyhere. But I think it's an interesting thought experiment to puzzle through.
There is a temperature range in which organic life flourishes the most. Too cold, chemical reactions slow down to a crawl or stop. Too hot, organic compounds break up. Somewhere in between is the sweet spot. So a warmer planet relative to now doesn’t have to be bad. Maybe Earth would even get closer to the sweet spot, from a global perspective.

The problem is the transition speed to the new global average temperature. 4°C increase over a million years: Organisms have time to evolve and to adapt to the new conditions. The same change in 100 to 200 years: Many species will suffer, especially ones occupying ecological niches.

Regarding humans: Generally speaking, existing infrastructure is not equipped to handle the extremes that occur more often when Earth is warmer, e.g. rains can cause more floods because warmer air transports more water.
> Comcast and the local Chamber of Commerce are suing to stop it citing that it's a Freedom of Speech violation.

that's gonna be a hard case to make. freedom of speech is typically your right to say something that you want to say which is not at all the same as compelling someone else to say something they would rather not.
I don't know. I've got a 2 hour commute each way. There's no way a company would accept my rolling in at 10AM and leaving at 4PM just because I'm working from 8-10 and 4-6 in my self-driving car. More than likely, self-driving cars will mean workers are still expected to get their 8-to-6 on-premesis face time, and then use their self-driving time to catch some shut-eye.
Look for papers, search for Watson Prolog UIMA
> Blindly charging ahead with the first idea that occurs to you, as an entrepreneur, is probably not going to work no matter how strongly you believe the world will get there.

Statically, you're just as likely to be right with the first idea as the one you're sat on for months
So once the injunction is served (which is looking increasingly likely), what will the spillover effects look like? I'm assuming Uber valuation tanks at this point, but how does that propagate?
That might be true, but an (perhaps more) important reason is literally the first 8 (chinese) characters in Hunminjeongeum [1], translated as follows:

> Because the speech of this country is different from that of China, it [the spoken language] does not match the [Chinese] letters.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum
>The people I know who are like this are what I'd describe as "9-5" employees, don't learn anything outside of work

So, you just don't hire people with kids, medical problems or other responsibilities outside of work? If you want people to bone up give them time during the work day, have sr. devs run workshops on new tech you're adopting. Don't create the expectation people should work in their time off. If you want effective employees you should invest in that and not shove the cost onto the individual.

Even if it produces the results you'd (which is pretty questionable) like these kind of criteria have obvious and well-known biases.
Remember that innovations in tech do not require disrupting the government. The tech innovators have little interests in sabotaging the government. Innovations in tech is different from breaking government rules. Tech innovations are about disrupting the incumbents such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, not about the government. Quite to the contrary, the Chinese government encourages tech innovations. Not only that they allow them to innovate, they allow them to break existing rules. As an instance, China is one of the few large countries which have legalized shared cars nation-wide(Didi, Uber). Not even the US.
there was a 2015 paper (same lab I think) that showed very widespread A-to-I editing in squid also https://elifesciences.org/content/4/e05198
Of course it is. That's why it's guided by natural selection and territorial acquisition.
From your perspective or the company's perspective?

From the company's perspective an unmotivated 9-5 employee not as good of a hire as one who deeply enjoys the work subject and actively learns about it on their own.

From your perspective reduced job security because you probably don't perform at the level of someone internally motivated.

Even if that is not true there are enough of these sentiments floating around to affect decisions.

EDIT - If you disagree, a well worded comment carries more weight than a downvote and avoiding the discussion.
I'm probably missing something here, but: sidewalks?

I've also been listening while walking around/using public transport for many years, you can usually just pause the thing when you're in a situation that requires more attention (e.g. crossing) but generally it's better than walking while reading.
The problem is more that if many things are happening you tend to lose track of the book.
But that's why apps have "go back 30 second" shortcuts.
As I said elsewhere, media being attached to an unapproved network is a serious violation. Once that material hits the lower network it is in serious danger of compromise. The behavior of Windows is irrelevant.

You could also try making your point without being a snarky asshole.
Antalya Rafting RAFTİNGO Hakkında
Tutkunuzu iki katına çıkartın; Köprülü Kanyona giden en şaşırtıcı macera turunu planlamanıza yardımcı olmak için dürüst tavsiyelerde bulunuyoruz. Nefes kesen manzarası, renkli kültürleri, yerel mutfağı ve hiç şüphesiz'ki muhteşem yaban hayatı ile bu olağanüstü bölgeyi, sahip olduğumuz gibi yaşamanızı istiyoruz. Raftingo Rafting Macera Turları Antalya'da 1994 den beri Sizlere Adrenalin yaşatmaya devam ediyor...Unutmayın Bilinmeyende değil bilinen yerde güvendesiniz...
typo ---> "progammers" just like you.
I've taught close to 500 kids how to code on them. The number one thing they want to do is show better graphics. Number two is sound.

For me, [stepping through the code] I would expect as a normal part of coding. Not having it seems to hark back to some primitive time.
Here is David Moser also arguing that the Chinese writing system is objectively inferior: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
You can put spell checking into an algorithm. You can't reduce fact checking to an algorithm. How is this besides the point? The algorithm they have is "whatever websites X, Y and Z say".
They only work 9-5, duh! /s
I know one employer this will impact: Goldman Sachs. Not only do they demand you tell them what your current salary is during the interview process, they force you during a rigorous background check before your first day to prove it.
someone else wrote more details about it in this thread.
I don't mean to imply that it's a primary filter of mine either, or even something I would attempt to find out to base my decision on. However, if a company makes a decision that we aren't compatible early on, they're probably right, for both of our benefit. That holds even more true the dumber the reason is.

It's an absurd example, but let's say you don't get hired because the hiring manager thinks your shirt is super ugly. That's insane and obviously completely improper and irrelevant -- but you're probably better off not getting that job!
I'm guessing you don't live in a place where people walk very often? Everyone has had headphones on while walking for the last ten years.
not sure if it's available through update, but you can install the creators update manually if not.
also after that you need to lxrun /delete or so and reinstall the bash. after that it's on 16.04 and the interaction between windows <-> linux is way better. i.e. running `explorer.exe .` now works..
PySolFC! I haven't installed that in 8 years or so. My wife would be so happy if we could get that ported to Android. I'll have to take a look at this.
If you're not connecting the settop box, why do you care if it's SD?
I find it interesting that you find it OK to lie in sales situation.

I'll not be doing business with you. Just as I don't with the skeezy used car salesmen you seek to emulate.
There probably are numerous advantages to homeschooling, but I have a hard time finding convincing evidence. Either it's anecdotes from a small community of homeschooling parents or a study commissioned by an organization that has a vested interest in homeschooling, or authored by a leading member thereof. Significantly, I find that the people who share positive anecdotes are in higher wealth brackets and very well-educated, and I'm not aware of any studies that control for this.
I have not done this as part of a team. But I would think it is not critical for everyone to be using the exact same drawing. The drawings should be viewed as a tool for communicating. If different people are using different drawings, but it is facilitating communication, that second piece is the important piece.

At the mock up stage, I think the most important piece is hammering out effective communication protocols. Regardless of what tool you use, this will be a process. It sounds like you may be in different countries. If so, you may find that bridging the culture gap is harder than bridging the tech gap.
It's really no different from listening to the radio.
If we want to prevent discrimination based on the answer, then why should we allow the question to be asked? In that case, those that either are new and lack experience, or don't feel they have a strong enough position to say no to answering are still going to feel the negative effects of it. Ban the question entirely, and everyone is equally protected.
One likely outcome from this is that Google Search and News will be now be perceived as partisan by the Hoi polloi. Same reason why the old media gatekeeper fell by the wayside.
Even original Vi from AT&T Unix (never mind Vim) better supports outside parentheses:

If the cursor is here

(foo bar)
^

I can cut the whole thing using just d%: combine d)eletion with the % cursor movement (jump to opposite parenthesis). Then you can paste it elsewhere with p.

It's a POSIX-standard feature: see here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi...

That's just a crap editor for sysadmin tasks I wouldn't use for development.

If the syntax is:

foo(bar)
^

then we jump only over the argument list, not the whole expression.

Another thing is the damned comma disesase in f(x, y) languages. Say we are in Vi:

(foo abc def ghi)
^

We want to swap the last two parameters. Easy: type deep. Done! d)elete to e)nd of word, go to e)nd of word, p)aste.

Now try it with

foo(abc, def, ghi)
^

Annoying!

Imagine if your operating system shell forced you to use commas between command line arguments. Nobody would use such an idiotic thing. Why do we put up with languages that do that?

$ ls, -l, *.foo # just kill me now

Move second argument to third position: "parens outside" together with "no commas between arguments" makes it a breeze:

(foo (a b c) (d e f) (g h i) (j k))
^

Instead of deep we just do d%%p. Done.

(foo (a b c) (g h i) (j k))
^ d%

(foo (a b c) (g h i) (j k))
^ d%%

(foo (a b c) (g h i) (d e f) (j k))
^ d%%p
halo effect. what's worse, asking a guy like Mark Cuban what he thinks about anything just b/c he has money. And is on a TV show.
Wow! These are pretty cool.
Not really. Someone who is not in a strong bargaining position is not going to be able to push back and say no. The company will say, "Answer or we don't hire you." And while you might say "You don't want to work there anyway," I know I like being able to buy food and pay rent much more than I like not being hired. By banning the question outright, they make sure that your ability to not answer the question is not related to the strength of your bargaining position.
Since these articles on gaming history by Jimmy Maher consistently get voted up to the front page of HN, it may be worth mentioning that he has a Patreon where you can support his work here:

https://www.patreon.com/DigitalAntiquarian
I know a person who eats those "alternative facts" like candy. When I tried to prove one of them wrong, I pulled out a website to do a fact check and his response was: "you trust Snopes?" so I have doubts this will help much, but I would like to be wrong.
A Trump supporter decided that those things, things which would have disqualified someone from running not long ago, were not deal breakers. Thus, they were fine with them.
Monitoring Docker Containers in Production
I don't understand what's wrong with multitasking in this context. It is really easy to listen to an audiobook while doing some light cleaning or during commute. I love reading and I'm trying to increase my paperback collection but I think everyone should at least give it a shot, my recommendation would be Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter - it's an awesome experience.
Best game series ever with Ultima VI, VII, VIII and Online possible being the best games ever.
I live in San Diego and I can tell you that CBP most certainly does conduct searches on anyone passing through their secondary boarder checks. When I drive to LA I would say 1 in 5 times the secondary checkpoint is open in Oceanside and you have to slow down and at the very least get waived through. CBP has every right to stop and question you if they feel the need though.
How on earth is this a free market problem? Someone who does not feel they have a strong bargaining position will not be able to fend off this question. That's about as anti-free market as you can get.
Yes, sometimes, many times, maybe even 'often', the job applicant is more desperate for a job than the hiring party is.

But it's not a rule that applicants are desperate, and hiring parties aren't. It's absolutely a stereotype of the hiring process though.
Dallas Startup Employs Dozens of Robots to Mow Lawns