skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll second the question: Can you give examples of poor fact checking.

I have seen very biased fact checkers - their information is accurate, but their selection of things to factcheck were highly partisan.

But I've also seen fantastic fact checkers.

So some judgment is still needed. But on the whole, I wouldn't put fact checkers down. The good ones are far better than any news site I've been to.
Meet Cabin's moving hotels
Petya-Derived Ransomware Is Acting Like Shamoon, Wiping Data
I'm not sure how you got to those numbers. There are 18 options for each face option (eyes, hair, mouth) so the odds of picking the right face is 1/5832. And the odds of picking yahtzee are 1/26. So the actual odds of picking the right combo are 1/151632.
The list is meant more as a list of variables to compare, not as a list of possible red flags. If one or two factors are totally bad it still doesn't necessarily mean that you would call the patient "sick", especially when corresponding factors are fine.

Strong market position with bad products is usually okay. But if you know that and then hear about a deal that may risk decreasing the market position, then you know that there's a good chance it will get a lot worse and you can already start screening the job market for alternatives.

Also there are some factors, like good colleagues, which can compensate a lot for you personally, like bad HR department and bureaucratic leadership.

And sometimes things that are bad for you personally are actually good for the company. For instance if your customer is the government then bureaucratic leadership may actually be a market advantage over the competition.
I agree that it's fine if the tradeoffs are clearly disclosed.

I interact with Chinese sellers a lot. Both as a middleman, and for personal purchases. Hundreds of purchases over years. I see a lot of deception, deliberate as well as unintentional.
get a digital ocean account and a domain name. start a lamp server (or equivalent), use the excellent (imo) documentation to get things running. add services as you go along. I learned a lot from just that, now I have my own webserver, source control (git server with gitea) and other things running. tons of fun and learning
The US has basically this exact same program. For a single person, it's currently 10% of your income over $18k.
Ditto. I think that's definitely what would sell at the best value.

Coincidentally, it kind of simplifies the sorting problem too. Just do like Amazon and don't sort!

Instead, use the machine to figure out exactly what was in that bin you just bought. Give the bin an ID, and store it as is. Then, when putting together a set, have your software find the minimum number of bins you need to pull from to assemble the set. Run them through, and have the machine pull the parts.
> Then everyone is university'ing wrong!

Hey hey! I tend to agree!

Finding students a job should be a secondary byproduct of first giving them a world class education where you prepare and enable the student for society through being able to learn. Universities are to teach students how to learn so they can learn and be more aware and active about what is happening around them in society. Universities gives you exposure to a wide array of subjects for a purpose. It isn't random, and if you are attending a university where it does feel random, then find a better university.

"The goal of university education is to help build a fairer, more just society" - Steven Schwartz. [0]

Indeed this aligns with Plato's view on education -- "Plato regards education as a means to achieve justice, both individual justice and social justice." [1]

[0]: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/columnists/the-...

[1]: http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations/AAI9517932/
Wow, if they charged foregin deliveries as much as domestic deliveries, then maybe they could stop spam in mailboxes.

Does anyone know how to stop junkmail? Postal workers have told me they can't not deliver it - even if you pay for a PO Box.
The author of this article makes himself appear bat-shit crazy for his claims about Perl syntax being better.

In Awk, you can define a function like this:

function add(a, m, n,
sum)
{
for (sum = 0; m < n; m++)
sum += a[m]
return sum
}

Named parameters (wow, there is a concept); and few dermatological problems: no damn sigils, or required statement-terminating semicolons. The array reference is a[m], the scalar is m and so on.

Using an extra parameter (which is not specified in the call) for the local variable sum is a massive design fail, but no worse than any of the Perl design fails.

Perl repeats most of the design flaws in Awk, with compounded interest.
A Serbian Farmer Wants to Protect the Balkan Donkey by Selling Its Pricey Milk
You should play more D&D.

Yeah, watch out for them when you're not wearing shoes. Evil buggers.
I spent so much time redrawing tiles in Micromachines 2. Good times.
Because I don't want to start a point by point reply chain to try to convince you. I don't really care that you prefer Windows, only that you're evangelizing ignorance.

I get it, you want macOS to be a Windows clone and it not being the same frustrates you. You could actually tinker, poke around, explore, Google it, ask for help, whatever, and be that power user you profess to be, or you can choose to complain.

> Strange my ignorance is so "clear" but you've provided 0 reasons why.

Here:

"copy/edit the current folder path from Finder" Completely doable through the UI with just a mouse. You can literally get the answer to this with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" on the bit I quoted from you. Also achievable in a more than a few "power user" ways too.

"missing basic file operations like say, cutting and pasting a file" Drag and drop does exactly this. Also available as a keyboard shortcut or through the UI with a modifier key, but under the unixy name of "move". Also doable in other "power user" ways.
How many distinct Lego parts are there? Assuming they're all sorted into separate bins, picking them doesn't seem too hard. I guess sorting + putting them in the right bins would require something more complex. Surely there's a way.
Its super simple 11 lines of code then lines for the topics and description.

I have a topics hash/dictionary.

If the helpme command is run without a topic argument, it prints out all the topic keys to the dictionary one per line.

If it is run with a topic argument, it just prints out the value for that topic.
That's really interesting actually. In the distant past I spent more time sorting the cards than playing the game so there is probably a good trade off on automating it.

I went and bought a duel deck the other day to play with the wife so this is going to become another issue in the future again.
and why, in your vast non curmudgeon experience, should a game with an engine much simpler than chess talk to a web server for single player games?
This is all true. But: bricklink stores are captive so bricklink store owners are just creating brand recognition for bricklink, they can't legally sell their stores and bricklink.com has been sold to some Hong Kong entity after the original founder died. Slowly bricklink sellers are being squeezed for more of their profits because the site has critical mass.

And then there is the 'incrowd' which does everything they can to get rid of newcomers. All in all not too impressed with Bricklink in its current incarnation, the Lego group, which used to quietly promote bricklink has gone completely silent on them.

A final item about bricklink that I don't like is that they tend to sue or send C&D letters to other Lego related sites for the use of 'their' content whereas that content is all user generated, it's just that Bricklink overnight went from having all that content owned by the contributors to claiming copyright on images and terminology. They really pulled a Gracenote/Freedb stunt here.
That's cool. Good luck, hope to see part 4!
Unfortunately this is no longer possible :(

Facebook has removed the ability to make such narrow target groups.
>cannot punish a US based seller any more than a Chinese one.

You can, in that eBay has less ability to deal with Chinese sellers coming back with fake or borrowed credentials.

I do concede that eBay and their seller centric reviews deal with this better than Amazon and their product/not-seller centric review model.
The US does have random jurors, congress would be akin to houses of parliament.
It only listens on localhost though (127.0.1.1 by default), so it's not possible for it to be abused for dns amplification attacks.
Is it?

How come that primates like humans, are much smarter than the rest of the world?
This does not contain a MAC though, does it? Also why CBC? Why not CTR/GCM instead? And why AES256 instead of Chacha20-Poly1305 or some other modern AEAD?
I was in the audience, and if I ever knew how one should use an IV, I forgot. The article would have been more valuable to me if it gave a summary of what IVs are instead of what they aren't.
How do you ensure that you sleep exactly 15-30 minutes, when falling asleep could take anywhere between 0-30 minutes?
3D printed car tires concept from Michelin
I like programming, but if I could do literally anything and be just as financially secure maybe I wouldn't choose it.
https://dmachoice.thedma.org/register.php

Is recommended by the FTC.
I was thinking that you had trained the identifier just on the bucketized classes instead- fewer classes comprising all the similar parts. Maybe higher identification rate that way, or maybe not. Identifying right down to the specific colour and part means a heck of a lot of classes to train though.

This kind of stuff fascinates me. I've worked on software for package sorting machines in Amazon warehouses. Very similar idea to this: identify, remove from conveyor at right place/time. Only the machines are millions of dollars, run at very high speeds, and use barcode scanning for identification.
> But you needed that $12,000 upfront, which means you spent time in crappy jobs to save up for it.

That's what loans are for. The question is, do you want to take the risk or do you want to offload that risk?

Maybe the factor is more than just risk. By giving someone a vested interest in your success, they might also be there with other support after the class is done, such as job hunting.
Communication, how well are groups within the company communicating? Do groups tend to re-invent the wheel because they do not know about what other groups are doing?

Learning, what types of opportunities are employees given to develop skills and learn new skills?
About 40,000 shapes, about 100 different colors.

And picking them is stupendously hard due to the large variety in shapes and sizes.
Because switching careers is hard and scary. Some would find it encouraging to read others accomplishments and the paths they took, in order to do the same.
> Max deferral is 365 days. If you're running a business, switch to the business branch.

Thanks for the tip about the "business" branch - I hadn't encountered that concept before.

Assuming that [1] is talking about the same thing you are, it sounds like the "365 days" number you quoted applies to what Microsoft calls "upgrades".

"Another thing to keep in mind is that when you enable “Defer upgrades” in the Settings app, Windows 10 will automatically defer upgrades up to 4 months, and if you configure Windows Update for Business, you can further delay upgrades up to an additional 8 months. As such, you can postpone Windows 10 upgrades up to 12 months (4 + 8)."

But I'm just as concerned with the patches that Microsoft doesn't call "upgrades".

According to [2], "quality updates" can only be deferred up to 30 days, and I have no control over "non-deferrable updates".

I'm still evaluating whether or not the liability of those forced updates justifies the cost of moving her post-processing systems to Apple.

P.S. I should mention that we don't have access to Windows 10 Enterprise, and even if we did, I could never justify the time investment in becoming competent to use it just to defend her workstation from Microsoft.

[1] http://pureinfotech.com/defer-windows-10-upgrades-updates/

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
Snapchat now lets you create custom geofilters right in the app
The word you want is ‘biased’.
Federal loans (90% of all student loan disbursements) are paid from the treasury.

There's an argument to be made that the government shouldn't be charging students interest. But there's no banks involved.
Have you written a webapp as a side project before? If yes, then great:

1. Find a bare VM provider, e.g. Linode or Digital Ocean or EC2.

2. Figure out a way to get your code up there, even if it's ghetto. e.g. git pull from github. Get the app server running.

3. Figure out how to expose your app to the internet. Buy a domain name, get it to point to your IP addr. Soon enough you will realize that DNS load balancing is terrible...

4. Then you should install Nginx or HA proxy and put your app behind it. Run your app on localhost, only nginx should be exposed.

5. Once everything is up, iptables is your next concern, expose only ports you want and disable everything else.

6. Repeat 1-5 on a second instance.

7. Soon enough you will find that repeating the same thing sucks, so you will write Python script using Fabric library. But then you realized someone else have done this already, after a quick googling, you will find Ansible or Salt. Use those instead.

8. Rinse and repeat for other networked things. e.g. databases, mail relays, cache servers, etc.

9. Evolve your approaches, rewrite ghetto stuff, make your artifact as immutable as possible with very few network dependencies...

That's pretty much the entire devops evolution up until 3 years ago. Once you got good in these...

1. Start reading about Linux container and why they are useful.

2. Install docker and try to get your toy project in a dockerfile.

3. Repeat the learning exercise again on deploying Docker containers.

Hope that helps :)
What you learned is not completely wrong, but

1. it only applies to English,

2. aeiou are the five classical vowels of the Latin alphabet, but English has more than five vowels (see the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English)

3. although in English every consonant occurs in a syllable together with a vowel (as a with-sounder, if you will), there can be multiple consonants in one syllable. E.g. "claps" is a single syllable with one vowel "a" and four consonants. There is no vowel directly adjacent to "c" or "s". This is also the case for "mnemonic": the syllable "mne" has one vowel and two consonants. (Except in the English pronunciation, where the "m" is dropped.)
Test That Startup Idea You Have in Just 24 Hours
Aren't these interchangeable?

I mean, yes you got hands and fingers, but they work because they have nerves in them and those are basically extensions of the brain.
The feature to navigate/manipulate s-expressions is available in most Lisp text-based editors. That's not a special feature.
I had a professor who was adamant that we think of all design as "Constraint-based design". I've definitely found it a useful approach - but I still benefit from the reminder to use it in personal projects.
Agreed. Where is the pointer to the correct article to use when encrypting a file in C#.
Ask HN: If you were writing a DBMS today, what lang. would you choose and why?
Historically, these are written predominantly in C, C++, or Java. Is there another language you'd rather use today? Go? Rust? Erlang?
I can only dream of the kind of setup that you could make with a large budget. My only advantage is that I can put a lot of time into this project.
This reminds me of Kodak, who was given advanced warning that digital would disrupt the film industry. Kodak did little to prepare, and that blunder ultimately led to its decline. I fear the US is also blundering in the areas of energy and infrastructure policy.
Seems likely the use of the "Rendezvous" term is going to get you a cease-and-desist just like Apple got over what is now known as "Bonjour" (aka mDNS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
Maker here. Validate was born after my frustration with building a product for months and months, only to have the market ignore it blissfully.

Never again!

Check it out, and if you have any questions about "Validate" at all, please let me know!
The trick all recipe writers use is the recipe time assumes you are mise-en-place, that all your ingredients are prepared for the recipe ahead of the recipe time. I'm fairly certain Blue Apron and such are no different.
Carbon dioxide doesn't mean shit when the current PM2.5 AQI outside is 200 or 300+. You are talking about a global problem, I'm referring to the local one that will give you lung cancer and not just cause sea levels to rise.
The "even today" part destroys the entire question. Obviously, you would not survive on uncooked food 400 years ago as there were no refrigerators (unless you were a king or something, and even then).
But most of that hinges on IARC, which is (literally) a joke[1] in the scientific world, and that there are conflicts of interest among some (not all) researchers.

The argument is just that glyphosate isn't dangerous at the doses found in food, and that seems to be true based on Wikipedia's summary of the existing research[2].

That's distinct from the argument that glyophosate is safe for the environment or that it's safe for workers handling it in large quantities.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Agency_for_Resea...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Human
Silicon Valley’s tenant activists each other even more than high rent
Interesting. I haven't used slackware for many years, so far back in fact that it had to come on CDs because I had a dial up. Will take a look in that direction this evening.
You were probably not the intended audience then. It seems to me that this is intended for people who have some form of knowledge about cryptography already.

In any case, there are many articles about IVs and how to use them already so I do not see the point of explaining what an IV is yet again in that article.
I have a suggestion but am not a Lego guy. Maybe you can do a few things now that the sorter works, potentially using it to automate or minimize order fulfillment.

The idea is that if you can get a dataset of Lego packs / models you can use your inventory to make them. You can offer sales of the kits based on dynamic info. You can also provide inventory dynamically to users to purchase parts or upload a build manifest which will be filled.

I think the 2 huge assets you have are sorting for processing AND fulfillment, and real-time inventory levels of verified authentic parts.

Also, I would make some sort of contest, auction fun game where a person can win the whole pile of discarded stuff. Idk what's in there but I bet someone would want it.
Do the companies who allow naps see it as a perk or a necessity? IOW, if you see naps as beneficial would you be OK with people taking them during a product release, or a service interruption?
Yeah, I mean, it's really hard to come up with a solution to one problem that doesn't create a new one. I guess I am kind of imagining a system of mandarins. Perhaps the requirement is that you attend public school, where passing the course is required for graduation. And so you cut out HS dropouts but you also cut out private and charter school kids.
Work through all of these tutorials on containerization and orchestration found here: https://github.com/docker-training/orchestration-workshop

When running the Dockercoins example, how can you scale it up to mine as many coins as possible? How would you set up alerts for if one of the services went down? How would you diagnose the problem? What other tools might you use?

Play around and see what tools you like and don't like. Have fun!
How does starting a comments with blanket refutation help encourage open discussion? Why do people, including you start a comment with "No,"?

Type bing or duckduckgo in and you have switched, how is that hard?
Yeah, we had an all hands meeting where they explained that this was the reason. We're small, and money is tight, so saving a couple hundred thousand dollars a year is a lot of motivation for people to track their time accurately.

We're basically creating a new industry niche, so it is clear R&D. It's not like we're just churning out new shopping carts sites for the customer of the week.

We're just wrapping up our Series A, which included a major investment from CAT though, so we're in a lot better shape than we were a year ago when we started the initiative to take advantage of the tax credit.
You should extend it so it can assemble the pieces ;)
>an objective truth separable from political spin

I agree fact checkers are valuable, but it's important to consider them critically because I've yet to find one truly "separate from political spin." Politifact specifically I find is usually right as a general barometer, but sometimes they reaaally stretch what makes a statement a lie/truth. Ultimately they're still a media news site and that includes some bias. I first knew Snopes as an urban legend verifier, and at least in my experience their political fact checks retain a more objective voice and tend to be less editorialized. Politifact seems to abuse their "scale of truth" to regard some politicians more critically than others. "Politician X lied, but it's only a SORT OF lie, but politician Y from the other side is ON FIRE with lies." Regardless, Snopes still uses completely biased sources at times and requires canny evaluation itself.

There's no getting around it - to have an informed opinion, you need to really understand what's happening in the news, educate yourself, and be able to critically evaluate the advice you get from sources like fact checkers. Unfortunately, it seems like that's becoming an impossible task in 2017. I think that's an opportunity for something better, maybe.
At least 1 US nuclear plant's computer system was hacked
What makes you think were the author's intended audience, exactly? It sounds like the author intended their article for people who know what an IV is. You don't, and, while there's no shame in that, it does seem to indicate that you're not in the audience.

This is like me complaining that I can't understand Terry Tao's blog when it's posted to HN. It's not written for me.
build things, even small things, put them out there for the world to see.

You have more of an advantage when you are young as time is something you have less of when you get older.

the real learning begins now in the real world, not in a room where you take tests.
If you just set your timer for when you want to wake up and close your eyes, you'd be amazed how quickly you can doze off. For me it helps if it is dark, quiet, and cool.
Blue Apron, Struggling to Woo Investors, Lowers Price Range for IPO
Ask HN: SHA2 vulnerability post was removed. Why? Is it legit?
Hello. A moment ago someone posted this: https://github.com/laie/WorldsFirstSha2Vulnerability
It's now gone from HN.

Is the vulnerability legit?
I didn't read the rules for the most recent Cup but previous editions have limited the allowable materials and processing techniques in the rules, setting a limit on fibre modulus to prevent the better funded teams from going all out on eye-wateringly expensive M55J carbon for example. Cure pressures were limited to 1 bar vacuum (atmospheric) to keep the rich guys out of big and expensive autoclaves for their hulls and primary structure. There was a maximum density requirement for the keel bulb material forcing you to use lead rather than platinum, gold or depleted uranium!
These (nano? micro? mini?) fibres would likely be used as an additive to the resin, then laminated with everyday carbon - usually the first failure method to occur is resin microcracking which these little guys could helpfully and cheaply delay.
Ah I see. Looks like that ideal setup is a ways off. It would be really cool to see it happen some day!
NYTimes HQ has 3 nap rooms on different floors. Not sure how many people knew about it.