skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Wales recognized the key difference between Wikipedia and news and that's precisely why he's is proposing a new format that is distinctly different from Wikipedia's format and from blogs.

Their mission statement is the following:

> We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a
> real impact in both local and global events. And that stories can be
> easily verified and improved.

You earlier said that adversaries will just repeat falsehoods until they are perceived as being true but even endless repetition will not make sources and evidence magically appear. Could you please elaborate on why you think they will fail to achieve their goals?
It sounds like you didn't read the article, what documents they have state it was getting heavy investments, and being tested. So no alleged operations as of yet.

> The agency added in the document that it planned to conduct more tests with the Hover Hammer, and said it wanted to develop a larger version of the blimp that would be capable of flying at altitudes of 68,000 feet for up to six months at a time.

It'll be hard to track when it's out though, flying at 70k feet and being impervious to infrared and a couple other items as the article stated.
Yad Vashem's database of victims' names: http://yvng.yadvashem.org/
The 6 million number was a best-efforts estimate at the time. It is not guaranteed to be precisely correct.

(This is one of the very few talking points used by antisemitic asses that might actually be valid.)
What boggles my mind is the notion that a potential HIPAA violation is some grand immorality. It's just information about somebody. It's nice to keep secret, but no great loss to society if it was made public.
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I tried to track down some of the crazy news stories that were being shared broadly on Facebook and much of what I found was that they were algorithmically generated titles slapped onto the same URL and the actual "story" was copied bits from other semi-related stories.

You'd find really salacious headlines: "Hillary Clinton Murder Victim Speaks" and the actual story would be about her fundraising.

They were arbitraging the cost of buying a FB ad (to drive traffic and start the viral loop) against how many ads they could run on the site.
Why not patches?
Large news sites like the NYT have editing procedures and internal hoops to go through. This isn't just joe shmo's blog that is updated at a whim. I've written freelance articles with editing periods of months, you can imagine that it's a lot harder when it's news.
I want do the same for mushroom, because they are hard to recognize. Google images works quite fine.
Seconded. I don't even bother bringing my charger if I'm going on a weekend trip.

It's too bad this phone doesn't get more notice. No bloatware was one of the main selling points for me too.
RIP Phaedrus.
Yeah but bear in mind the maintenance became a significant part of the experience (motorcycle maintenance is not just in the title for decoration). Some people prefer not to do that.
creak. 69 here, still employed and coding etc, started in 1967, spent too many years having to make it up as I went along to specialize. If anything that specialty might be embedded systems, but not only. I would definitely guess my demographic is small. I find SO sometimes useful where my Google-fu fails me, but every so often I also get to ask the developer of the language/whatever directly instead. We're all about that age now, and it's a small and shrinking community.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but 1 USD ~~ 7 Yuan so it's closer to $0.4, not $0.7?
Every carb I've rebuilt has benefited from those words.
It's no exaggeration to say that this book changed my life. I learned so much from it, and apply what I learned on a daily basis. I was only thinking a couple of weeks ago that it's time for another re-read: that's definitely the case now.

RIP Robert M. Pirsig :-(
WHO ARE THE MISSING MILLION?? could actually fit well within one of those well-artifacted .jpeg collages of Holocaust denial "evidence."
"What is wrong with using a competitor's API to get real-time tactical information about them?"

Legal terms of service.
This can really be extended to basic troubleshooting skills, and goes beyond software development -- beyond technology, even.

Troubleshooting is really just a special application of general 'problem solving', which is something schools aim to teach. I'm not sure why troubleshooting skills are not taught, especially something like "divide and conquer" [1]. Even in very complex systems, so long as you have the right access/visibility/logging to see what's going on at various places, it usually doesn't take very long to isolate a problem down to a particular component.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubleshooting#Half-splitting
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is not a very good book but it is a good book.

I loved it and will always remember it when I have forgotten many other books. It is not a 'philosophy' book but it is quite philosophical.

It's worth a read but it's slow in parts. Push yourself through or skip a few chapters.

Like many other readers my favourite part is the drink can as shim.
What’s important to note here is that Iran’s progress
developing those centrifuges — the ones Jamili was allegedly
helping procure parts for — is part of what prompted the
Obama administration to try to negotiate the nuclear deal in
the first place. In other words, its prisoner swap
undermined its own nonproliferation objectives.

How does inking a deal which verifiably stopped the uranium refinement program undermine the objective of stopping the uranium refinement program? If the swap was part of the larger quid pro quo and wasn't unpalatable, so be it. And so what if one of the guys was procuring parts for IEDs? It's despicable, but given that the alternative was initiating yet another war in the Middle East with more American casualties, I think we could hold our nose. I think I'll give Obama a pass for spinning the moral culpability of the prisoners.

A number of them were involved in helping Iran procure
lethal technology for its military

_Lethal_ military technology? Is there any other kind? This author is really struggling to create controversy here.

How about all these pundits put their collective heads together and try to figure a way out of the North Korean situation. That's a real dilemma, with a high likelihood of hundreds of thousands of deaths, including many thousands of deaths of American soldiers. If only solving it were as easy as the Iranian situation.
For what it's worth, in books and other print media it is usually easier to tell if a piece of text is sarcasm or not based on context.
I don't think it's very influent outside of the US.
Does anyone know if the dataset is available publicly?
I thought this was going to be about the millions of oft-forgotten gypsies and other minority groups, not to mention communists and intellectuals, who were murdered in nazi concentration camps along with Jews. Instead the article doesn't even mention them in passing.
Mindblowing! Awesome job!
Why did they take it offline?
TL;DR: "Writing down the solution" without "thinking real hard" is a much better method
They make the hardware and the operating system!
Is there something like this for Android? This app seem to be restricted to iOS.
Nice list! You really should consider merging yours with the ones mentioned in the NYT article and contributing it to Wikipedia [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadable_aircraft
Pretty sure most people here would want to read the intercept article, rather than RT telling you what is in that article...

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/japans-secret-deals-with...
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It does affect the number of stories coming out. If all companies are the same, why is it Uber constantly in the news?

That was his question.
...You think Paypal is a competitor to the app store?
It would be nice if you could have a shortcut to "move current active window to Display 1/2/3 etc."
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Why not if the price is right ? The biggest obstacle for me is the need to register and create an account not the price itself.
I love how everyone always words this like it's perfectly reasonable to expact a salary that has you living like a college student and unreasonable to ask for a salary that lets you live like an actual grownup who worked hard and took some risks to get expertise.

Do you guys actually feel that way or is the startupspeak getting to us?
Using that logic, when presented with the perspective from 20 doctors reaching two different conclusions, you present both perspectives and conclusions. Furthermore, you do not suggest whom to trust.

Also, it is somewhat ironic that you chose doctors as an example, as this is the area where it is common practice to get a second opinion when presented with a material conclusion.
Somehow she managed to find time to get a double first from Cambridge whilst also being really pretty and an actress, so I think that probably at least slightly qualifies her for some vague element of credibility.
Except they're still losing billions of dollars every year.
Please don't editorialize the title.
Is the raw data available somewhere?

EDIT: found a lot more info (and videos) here : http://www.ga.gov.au/about/projects/marine/mh370-bathymetric...
>Win-loss outcomes are zero-sum by definition. I don't see this discussion going anywhere productive from here.

Only in a very restricted framework. If one side goes out of business and one side only makes a minor gain (and lots of remaining competition exists), that is obviously not zero sum from any perspective
I'm amazed that Wikinews still exists, if only because it seems so incredibly unknown.
Humans are gross though.
Dichotomous keys are the standard in taxonomy for species identification since centuries. It's basically a binary search tree, generated by hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-access_key
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Or sexual minorities, especially from Berlin, who were deported and killed in concentration camps.
I feel like I'm saying No all the time. A boss and a couple coworkers have commented on it over the last couple jobs. But how many times do you really want to relive the same predictable emergency?
There's actually never been any proof provided that Iran had a nuclear weapons program. The evidence available says that Iran might have had a weapons program before 2003. This is according to the IAEA.

The US National Intelligence Estimate concluded that the Iranian nuclear weapon's program ended in 2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran

So when the article says the prisoner was helping "Iran's nuclear weapon's program", that's a provocative and unsubstantiated allegation.
Numbers, in general, are a man-made symbolic system to make sense of the real world. So, you're undoubtedly technically correct.
I think a lot of it is a lack of documentation. This has two effects.

1) People just get started and get used to not really understanding the interface they are working with. Who hasn't felt like they were playing whack-a-mole with CSS layout? This means lack of conceptual clarity fails isn't notable.

2) Nobody ends up noticing just how complex the rules are.

It was 9 years from when I started looking for a tutorial like http://book.mixu.net/css/ to when I actually found it. That is...really quite bad.
I'm going to warn against it. Overdependence on email has hurt my career on several occasions. Most people hate reading work emails and they will resent you for making them do it (read: they usually won't do it at all; at best, expect them to skim). The best work emails are short -- and I mean short, like two sentences short.

Email can be a useful tool and learning to communicate over a distance is really important, but I can't help but think you're going to hurt yourself if you see email as a substitute for face-to-face.
Fair points, did not know that about Welch. I stopped following GE in 2002.
Motivated sources motivate other sources. You're seeing discontent among Uber employees play out as a line of newly-minted, motivated primary sources. This is why a news cycle can, on occasion, feel like the Eye of Sauron: it's not that people are suddenly paying attention, it's the constant reminder to indecisive sources that they can now air their grievances and find traction on them with that attention. Attention is exponential and each negative story sharpens it more than the last, compounding as the cycle deepens.

Journalists are acutely aware of this phenomenon. Just one particularly controversial story can pull dozens more out of the woodwork as sources say hey, you think that's bad, I've got something to talk about too. One runs a story that's a little bit wrong or controversial, and a bunch of sources will materialize out of the blue to correct, or add to, the record. Often, they remain sources once they realize it's child's play to get away with it and that sourcing can serve their ends, too.

The original CIR reporting here is mostly based on Spangenberg's October deposition, but they talked to five people to report on it. Five. That's really hard to pull off even for a well-connected reporter. Rough times for Uber if the bad news is flowing this freely, and I don't think we are done with this cycle by a long shot. Kalanick's exes are talking, for Christ's sake: if there's a Richter scale for news cycles, former lovers sourcing to help shit on your company is about a 9. That's a bad sign and a boatload of chum in the water. There will be followups on this stuff until Christmas. Mark my words.

As a counterexample, Theranos was a surprisingly tight ship once that WSJ missile landed; I expected far more of the same momentum you're now seeing with Uber once their cycle got going, and there was a little but not nearly as much. Smart money would be that Theranos takes better care of its people than Uber. Source behavior during negative PR cycles is a good signal on this, and why it's important to pay attention to care and feeding of people who have damaging things to say.
What's Orwellian about it? You have to admit that at some point during the natal development cycle, there is a completely viable child in there capable of growing independent of the womb.

How is that not an unborn child?
It was not already a monopoly. Your link says there were other long distance companies, just that AT&T's was more extensive.

Note that scores of companies were running railroads everywhere, it doesn't make sense that running a telephone wire was infeasibly expensive.
> the marginal utility of one glass of water, or one screw in a more complex utility function (as is always the case in life) than for just one widget,

I was taught the concept using the water example in undergradudate, and find the analogy is spot on. Other comments are considering more complicated marginal effects or the intersection/equilibrium of multiple marginal effects and confusing the point.
Hi searchfaster,

Can you elaborate more from documentation that this new features can filter out DDOS attacks or handle rate limiting? Because i can't find out that statement

Thank you
> to which adding one more of something will exceed the cost of doing so.

No. That's marginal cost.
I agree with you, it is a hard book to grasp everything in it in one go!
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The header animation is terribly distracting and annoying. I though "let's follow the mouse pointer with something gimmicky" went out the door with geocities.
"Mens sana in corpore sano", says 10000th study :)

The real question: is there anyone out there that really debates that exercising constantly = better, longer life?
That's part of the plot of "Earth Girl Arjuna"
Naturally they'd probably want something like those absurdly high-resolution real-time drones put into a package that can be kept aloft not just for hours but perpetually.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1... is an example of an existing drone. That kind of equipment could easily fit into a blimp.
1) I have provided examples of how adversaries can manipulate the naive implementation described above. Countering one example shouldn't be seen as countering the class.

2) to answer your specific question - self referential information loops already exist.

News paper makes a claim, claim is put onto Wikipedia. That claim is repeated by other websites, which in then use wikipedia as the source.

How will wiki tribune solve this?

By doing longform research? Going out in the field and finding the facts?

That's not what this setup is good for. It assumes that fact checkers can check facts, at the speed of the current news cycle.

Fact is that this verification can't be done fast enough and broad enough to cover ground to be useful, unless it gets a multi billion dollar investment.
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Today, less than 2 months after launching the beta of my social learning platform, Taughtful (taughtful.com); I received a cease and desist letter from Pluralsight/Smarter stating that Taughtful is too similar to Smarter and that I have willfully stolen their intellectual property. Taughtful is 100% my own code, my own design and my plans extend far beyond the original scope of Smarterer. You can read the entire C&D letter here, which I have already forwarded to my attorney: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B741TFQThWSldVpaR2tEMGVubU0

For those who are not familiar with Smarterer, it was formerly a free website where people could create and take skills tests online. They had an extensive API which allowed integration into services such as eLance, etc.

Fast-forward to today, Smarterer.com got bought out by Pluralsight and absorbed into their monolithic learning solution and is no longer publicly accessible. They essentially took this wonderful crowd-sourced learning tool and closed it off, for profit.

I have been designing a similar platform for well over a year now and back on March 15th I launched my beta.

I have much more plans beyond just crowd-sourced skills testing with machine-learning in the background, but that is where I have started. I have plans to parter with recruiters and organizations so people can automatically apply for jobs by taking skills tests, I plan on exposing a developer API, building in social-networking aspects into the platform so people can teach/learn from each-other, the ability for people to create and charge for courses, etc. I want to disrupt the public education system. If you want to learn more about the future plans, check out https://taughtful.com/about

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If you don't think there's a major underlying issue, Toastmasters is perfect. You just need to get used to meeting people and practice breaking the ice and you should have no problem. Do everything you can to get experience with this until you feel 0 reticence.

You don't necessarily have to start inviting random people to lunch, but being able to break the ice and being comfortable around new people is important. Other people are feeling that anxiety too and it's stopping them from getting out what they want. Practice until you become so good you can put the room at ease and make it easy for others to get out what they want to contribute and your skills will be highly valued.
My unconsciousness has no choice but to speak to me, given I can't visualize.
Unfortunately we did not get to the Android App. Maybe some day :)
Great advice ^_^ Non-direct contact helps me a bunch!
Or, in not-libertarian-land, people pay taxes because they enjoy having access to public services such as police, fire departments, working roads, water, etc.
This is horrible horrible news. It was stupid when they did it from the middle east and even stupider now from Europe where security is the same as in the USA.
I wonder how they plan on managing traffic in 3D.
In my neighborhood, and for miles around it, the internet cable is stapled to the telephone poles. Every few years they pull it off and staple another one on that can handle more bandwidth.

A while back a competitor appeared and tried to run another wire, but it got so mired in permits, regulations, and lawsuits that it gave up. It wasn't the cost of laying the cable.
I would support it if it weren't down.
> How much of this is cultural, and how much of it is a result of being examined microscopically by passionate investigators?

An argument could be made that cultural is at least a significant factor. Take Susan J. Fowler's allegations, for example: if true (and I have no reason to believe they aren't), how many HR departments do you know that would not only tolerate but even assist in covering up repeated sexual harassment by an employee, with documented evidence no less?
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PAL-V is not American if I looked it up correctly.
It is interesting to note that, were they applied to physical private property, most of your arguments would clear the stealing of anything that is not bolted to the ground.

So I'm trying to answer to you in this light.

Who has legal property of the data in question : Obviously, Lyft.
Does Uber, by accessing this data, benefit from it : obviously, yes.
Do they, by accessing the data, deprive Lyft from the use of this data ? At first glance, the answer would be no : when you access data, you don't remove it. However, one of the benefits of owning data is to be able to sell it. By accessing this data, Uber removes or lowers the ability for Lyft to sell this data to Uber. In a more general way, one of the benefits of property is to enjoy the sole use of the owned item. Uber violates this.

Now let's look at deniability :
Did Uber know the owner of the data did not want them to access it : yes, obviously.
Did Uber get access to this data without seeking it ? No, they deliberately sought to access it.
Did Lyft put in place barriers to restrict access to this data, and give a clear warning about who was to use it ? Yes, they did.

> This can't be taken as an absolute unless we concede that we must say "OK" just because they say "Please don't"

Well, our laws work like that for pretty much every other aspect of property laws. The owner's only responsibility is to make sure that potential users know the thing is not up for grabs.
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My first thought: why is that name so familiar?

My second: Oh.

Pirsig's book was there for me during a challenging time of my life. I never finished it, but I'm not so confident that I really needed to. Just starting the book in many ways can be enough.
I'm 63 and a bit overweight. But I have lost 50 lbs in the last 2 years. Wife and I try to exercise for 50 to 70 minutes a day Monday-Friday. We are up at 4:30 am and at the gym at 5:10.

We feel better doing this for ourselves. Some weekends we go to the gym and usually, when we do we stay longer.

I'm a believer.
Ok, works now. I very much want easy/fast access to translation for all of the lyrics, not just select words. Hovering over a lyric to provide the translation would be awesome. This plus a large Spanish-to-English playlist would have me throwing money at you right now.
I think you've got to expand on that. Just "No, it's [other thing]" kills the conversation.