skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; snippets from the article:

A shocking amount of disinformation (“fake news”) is also created by and spread from smaller, fringe Web communities that have relatively outsized influence on the greater Web.

We set out to measure just how this influence flows in a systematic and methodological manner, analyzing how URLs from 45 mainstream and 54 alternative news sources are shared across 8 months of Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter posts. Highlights:

1. Reddit and 4chan post mainstream news URLs at over twice the rate than Twitter does

2. Alternative news URLs spread much faster than mainstream URLs, perhaps an artifact of automated bots

3. 4chan was also the most successful at “reviving” old stories

We found that Twitter does have heavy influence on the spread of fake news. The_Donald and /pol/ are responsible for around 6% of mainstream news URLs over 4.5% of alternative news URLs on Twitter.

Whole story in the arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06947
Stories like this are the reason I will never switch from Apple products. I have personally have had nothing but outstanding customer service from Apple and have heard countless examples of products being fixed or replaced for free even when out of warranty without any hassles.

Switching to an Android phone to save $100-200 over the lifetime of a product that I use 1000 times per day, and risk bad customer service is just bad value.
> The gist is that I don't really have a blueprint on paper, it's all in my head, the blueprint comes together when I glue everything together.

TDD doesn't work well at all when you're not sure what you're building yet because having to constantly refactor your tests eats up time. You might be better writing a quick and dirty prototype first and then trying TDD.

> I've not found a case where writing tests actually helped with writing the program. For me, it's been a hindering process. Am I doing something wrong here?

For what it's worth, when I was taught TDD I found TDD proponents very frustrating to talk to when I wanted an honest evaluation of the pros and cons. Several would refuse to admit any downsides to TDD and instead push back that you just weren't getting it yet. There's no silver bullet.
CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately?”
That may or may not be true, but it's by definition hard to tell because the cases that don't get attention, you don't hear about. So it's hard for us to tell for sure. But in general, considering that billions of people have Google accounts, the fact that you can count these cases on your fingers and that you don't see articles about it every week means that it's probably safer than flying by plane.

Let's be honest, nothing is 100% safe. If you decide to keep everything off of the cloud also has its own risks.
Why would anyone want to run C in an interpreter though? Seems kinda pointless other than for educational purposes. I guess compiled/interpreted is arbitrary, but on a practical level most languages are one or the other (im not going to count JIT as compiled)
And a broken cellular standards body that doesn't nail down in explicit detail how the IP will be licensed before granting a government-sponsored & mandated monopoly.
I am considering switching from an iPhone 6 to an 8 Plus. Do you regret going for a bigger iPhone or not? I tried the 8 Plus in a store and it was much faster! But also much heavier, that's why I haven't made the jump yet.
Presbyopia. Human's eyes gradually lose ability to focus on nearby things. Past 40 it begins to be a nuisance.
> that can help dissolve the Microsoft lock-in problem.

So that you can have a Google lock-in problem.
I do understand. My belief would be that if you are running a for-profit, private business, and not a public service, you have the right to refuse service if it's against your best interests.

I don't go making websites for everybody that asks me to, when I have more productive things to do, and I would bridle a bit if anybody suggested that I had some kind of moral obligation to do so.

I always thought it was a little idiotic that Uber doesn't just tell the drivers where you want to go before they come pick you up.
https://sitestacks.com/products/g-suite-formerly-google-apps...

Doesn't seem like it is accurate though. Seems like this is more of crowdsourced data than automatically figuring out things.
Git repository are private for you or for a team that you select.

Yes, everything is encrypted on your machine locally.
> the author goes much further than that and concludes that because Australia does not provide enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the null hypothesis (gun control doesn't work) is therefore true

I don't think this is the claim. I think the claim is that the evidence is insufficient to merit supporting a particular policy intervention. Banning things is not without cost: there will be some economic consequences for people making the thing, and there will need to be an enforcement regime which will either increase law enforcement costs or reduce LEO time spent elsewhere, and the practical impact of that enforcement regime will, if past gun interventions are predictive, involve incarcerating a bunch more people, many or most of whom will be urban men of color, which will result in both monetary and societal costs. And if there's a buyback program, that will also be enormously expensive, and require either incurring new debt or not spending that money on some other means of life-saving.

I think it's reasonable to want to be pretty confident a particular policy intervention will work before agreeing to incur that cost, and I think the author is saying the Australia example does not constitute sufficient evidence to merit that confidence. That's not the same as saying it didn't or won't work.
Why on earth would they want to get out of the ad business?
It wasn't necessarily the publicity. He reached out through normal channels, but these things normally take some time to process, since they normally have to be reviewed by humans.

It's one of those things where you want to tread carefully.

I mean, say my account got hijacked.

I want to get back in. So does the hijacker. I would much rather prefer waiting an extra day or so, than risk having the hijacker purporting to be me getting back in.

I've actually had to deal with the exact above scenario for a friend before - they had a Gmail email account, and another (unnamed) email provider. The hijacker did try to get back in, and it's a pretty scary proposition. So having a bit of peace of mind that the bar is suitably high is good.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but any statements above are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer).
Andon (Japanese manufacturing system)
It‘s worse than the iPhone (699$ vs 799€), but unfortunately it’s just the continuation of the trend. Over the last years electronics steadily got more expensive in Europe compared to US. Before that is was often 1$ == 1€, which was not that far off after taxes.

However another thing to consider in pricing ist that android phone prices will fall pretty quickly over the year anyway, up to about 50%. We’ll see how it will be for the Pixel2
I think the key there is that Dell ships with an LTE modem, a separate device with a separate price. They pay royalties to Qualcomm on the price of the modem.

Apple would never (for some value of never) ship a laptop with an external device like that. The LTE is either baked into the laptop (at which point Qualcomm would demand a % of the entire laptop's sale price), or it's not included at all. They choose not at all.
>who hasn't actually crossed a border

You mean like ever in their lifes? If not, some people might disagree with you:

http://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-interstate-borde...

Or you can claim that border patrol tracked these people for 75 miles and then held them up at the road block.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Experienced (3 years) mobile developer

My name is Nicoara Talpes .

Experience: I have build 3 big iOS apps for clients in the past two years. I have had my own startup which did some big data analysis, I have been part of Toptal network of highly selected developers. I am a full stack developer.

Location: Romania
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: iOS Swift for three years , react-native. For back-end: ruby on rails, asp mvc c# for four years.
Resume: http://linkedin.com/in/nicoara-talpes , here are portfolio images
Homepage: http://nicoaratalpes.ro (with blog)
Email: nicoara@nicoaratalpes.ro
Portfolio: on my linkedin
These reasons are why it is only speculation. And also why I concentrated on Northern Europe, where agriculture is more recent and meat was always a larger part of the diet even in the agricultural age.
Maybe I'm weird, but I've never deluded myself about the impact of a lack of sleep. My entire life I've strived to get 7.5 to 8 hours a night. I'm not that successful lately, but I make it a priority.

What I don't get are people that brag about not getting much sleep. It's clearly unhealthy. Would you brag about your poor eating habits? Or not following a medication regimen?

I know the science is still early, but I have no doubt that poor sleep has a significant, long-term, permanent impact on health.
Feels like really decent hardware to run Linux on.
As responded on the third, a process that relies on the subject being well enough known or connected enough to bypass common process isn't a scalable solution.

If someone has to know to e-mail you personally to help fix an issue, that concept doesn't scale to x million accounts.

I'm not trying to get at Google specifically here, I'm suggesting that as all the tech. companies move more of people's digital lives to the cloud, these accounts become more important and how they deal with ToS violations, reactivations and the like will require a lot of thought.
Passenger doesn't necessarily imply Rails. builtwith.com gets this wrong too.
The SiFive coreplexes themselves are based on the UCB-BAR Rocket core generator, which is open source. Most of the SiFive founders worked and still contribute to Rocket.
As someone who regularly has several browser-based projects open, it's nice having a small part of the window that shows the current progress of the build.

I've gone back and forth using a "normal" terminal and using the one in VSCode. I often end up using the latter since it keeps the build progress with the proper project.

Having the project folder as the CWD automatically is a really nice time saver, too.
Show HN: CoinHub for iOS
Totally agree. I had this thing's immediate predecessor, the second-gen Pixel. I used crouton and the integration was fantastic. Alt-tab between ChromeOS and a real Linux desktop. Clipboard integration. ChromeOS driver stability plus all of my familiar Linux tools. Fantastic battery life too.

However, that developer-mode "hit Crtl-D or lose everything" misfeature always made me super-nervous too. Whoever implemented that must have never read any one security-UX book, because they all mention the evils of taking irrevocable action in response to a password failure. Or maybe they were just brain damaged. Either way, what a horrible mistake.
I strongly disagree with your disagreement, but that's ok.

Writing my own vimrc from scratch (but obviously referencing others) was by far THE best learning tool for me.
Piggybacking off of the original question, I too have a question in this scope:

With all the products you're offering, is there any indication which products will be staples of Keybase? Eg, I'm always hesitant of the "Google Product", where something gets added only to be abandoned ~1yr later after it doesn't gain the traction the company expected.

For example, I'd love to get my wife and I switched to Keybase Chat from Telegram. With that said, I love the features of Telegram, they're killing it for me honestly, but I can't expect Keybase to compete with Telegram unless they're really invested in it.

So which products from Keybase are one-off experiments, and which are long-roadmapped products - expected to have continued development and support for years to come? I'm having trouble understanding what to trust.

Note, none of this is critical to Keybase. I'm wary of startups in general, despite loving you guys, so I'm just seeking understanding. I appreciate whatever information you can give me, even if small :)
DRM audio(or worse, DAC) authentication over a USB-C connection.

Your storage device has to handshake with the playback device. Maybe HDCP over USB?
Las Vegas probe turns to shooter's girlfriend as Trump visits scene
Draconian punishment without warning and without recourse in response to a single misstep would indeed be very surprising.

If that is what actually happened then it invites regulatory action considering Google's unparalleled market share and reach.
It's uncanny how Google's decided that it can't beat apple, so it's joining it.

At least in terms of product and marketing. If only they'd do the same for privacy.
Sometimes I can sleep over 6 hours, but then I wake up with back pain...
Hello. I have build 3 big iOS apps for clients in the past two years. I have had my own startup which did some big data analysis, I have been part of Toptal network of highly selected developers. I am a full stack developer.

Location: Romania
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: iOS Swift for three years , react-native. For back-end: ruby on rails, asp mvc c# for four years.
Resume: http://linkedin.com/in/nicoara-talpes , here are portfolio images
Homepage: http://nicoaratalpes.ro (with blog)
Email: nicoara@nicoaratalpes.ro
Portfolio: on my linkedin
> You violated the law and their (rather reasonable in this case) terms of service and are shocked to find they'd rather not do business with you?

When I worked in the Intelligence Community I had to go through multiple FBI investigations and polygraphs. Every single one of them asked me about laws I may have violated in the past. One of the agents even said (paraphrased, of course) "Maybe you downloaded some movies? It's illegal but many don't realize it and probably most people do it".

Pirating is one of those crimes that has become normalized. The parent may have realized it was illegal but didn't think much of it and probably didn't realize it would lead to his account being completely disabled.

The trouble with Google accounts and becoming disabled is it can very likely ruin a good part of your life because of how much of your data they hold and there are zero ways to redeem yourself if you did do something wrong and there are zero ways to resolve the problem if it was due to something inaccurate or false (which has happened especially if someone else gets into your account).
That worked for me for awhile (mix of actifed + loratadine/claritin) but eventually the inflammation got so bad that no medication worked.
A suburb with access to schools, libraries and parks is a fine thing. I grew up in such a suburb (in Toronto, if you're curious) and I'm not sure I understand what kind of city community provides the village experience you're imagining in your second paragraph. In my experience city dwellers have not been more neighbourly than those I remember from the suburb of my youth.
I'm not saying Google IS collecting everything the camera sees, I'm saying they COULD. This statement is meant to give the reader a sense that the device is safe from privacy concerns because it physically can't be accessed remotely, which is not accurate.
Sure, but what about the people authoring web content on Windows? I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill SWEs.
Your side project made me switch from Nano to Vim on my servers through SSH. I aprehended vim with fear, and now I have the right level of confidence. Thank you!
I thought it's just me. I remember the first WaveNet demo sounded significantly more natural than the non-WaveNet stuff. But now they sounded almost the same. The main difference is that with WaveNet you don't hear that robotic tone at the end of a phrase, that's typical of old TTS technologies. But the way the phrase is spoken still sounds like a machine said it, rather than a human.

I wonder what compromises they made to improve the performance by 1,000x. There have to be some.
There is one caveat relating to default browser font size, but yes:

https://kyleschaeffer.com/user-experience/css-font-size-em-v...
My point was that you're anthropomorphizing the lawnmower when you say that oracle is evil.
How did you calculate that? Without taxes it’s 671€, which is 789$. So the difference is 190$
Taxing based on revenue sounds very detrimental for companies with low margins - say your profit is only 1% of your revenue. Then you would go out of business by this tax. Also seems very harmful to yet unprofitable startups.
New York DA closed fraud case on Trump kids after campaign donor intervened
That is a simple solution! Have you had an issue with getting your tablet dirty though?

Ive been looking at projectors I can point down to the kitchen counter. Then I can swipe through recipes without getting my devices dirty.

Also, I would think watching netflix as you cook would distract you and maybe mess up your meal, has that happened to you?
Thanks for the clarification, it's not at all obvious from the website. The actual target audience buying $600k core licences is probably aware of all of this anyway.
Id like to see some ability to detect different CMSs
Hi HN,

I bought my first Bitcoin and Ethereum. Like many of you know, cryptocurrency is traded 24/7/365. So the first thing I did was go to the App Store and look for some great quote and news apps so I can stay connected to what is happening in the markets.

What I found was disappointing. There weren’t many apps and the ones I did find were terribly designed, didn’t cover all the exchanges, didn’t plot out trend lines clearly, didn’t have news, and weren’t realtime. If you are doing anything with cryptocurrency, having this at your finger tips is a must.

So I began to write a simple, yet stylish, app that would just tell me the quote of currencies I had invested in. I hope you like it. If you have feedback or questions, let me know!

-R
My thought as well :D

In addition, the movie has already reminded me of Google...
that's an interesting assumption, an alternative interpretation would be that as they're so common they're no longer news-worthy.

Either could be true...
There might be many people like that, but given the cost of such headphones they'd have to be a small percentage of the overall population of phone/headphone users.
Cool idea! I didn't know I needed to set up these hooks until now. Every time I cook the iPad gets in the way due to my lack of counter-space.
A quick glance at Twitter's 2016 Annual report: 2016 Revenue: 2.5B 2015 Revenue: 2.2B 2014 Revenue: 1.4B 2013 Revenue: 660m

In the past 2 years, Revenue almost doubled. Over 700m gets spent on R&D each year - if they cut that they become profitable day 1.

The article says "by all metrics Twitter has failed," but only quoted the lagging (buy still positive) rate of new users and declining stock price.

The may have missed opportunities, but to say Twitter "failed" or "Doesn't have a business model" is ignorant of the financial facts: Twitter could cut R&D investment, stop acquiring companies or building features and have a return on assets almost 50% greater than Facebook's. Twitter may not be as 'profitable' as Facebook, but it sure as hell uses its assets better.

It does seem like Twitter is starting to reach an upward cap on its virality. If management doubles down on making a well-oiled machine instead of trying to be the next Facebook, they could be a great dividend investment. This isn't sexy, but it's definitely an enviable position.
Off topic question: has there been any work yet on a TileLink IOMMU? I was playing around with writing one, but didn't want to put in the effort if you guys or SiFive were just around the corner from releasing your own.
Probably a tradeoff for keeping it small & light while maintaining a decent battery life.
In font sizes yes, other sizes not so much :-) (I couldn't reproduce the issue highlighted in musage's source by altering Firefox' default font size, but perhaps that's an IE only thing.)
Hmm, I'll have to do more research, but I thought they used some American hosting. Perhaps I'm mistaken! I'll make a note in the comment, ty!

edit: I take that back, I'm not wrong, yay \o/.

https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i...

They are in the US, it's just that the company itself isn't. So depending on your level of distrust of the US, that may or may not be an issue for you.
Intel Infineon has been around quite a while. Apple's lawsuit comes only after Apple as the article correctly notes conspired with Samsung to force the Korean regulators to go after Qualcomm. There are other backdrops, such as the SCOTUS's recent decision not to award damage on entire device willy-nilly (see Samsung vs Apple).
Can confirm, am using Remote Desktop with Windows 10 Pro. Very happy so far.
By using chromebook, you are almost giving away your entire digital life. Such data will be abused by Google to sell ads, as it has happened many times before.

What a horrible piece of privacy abusing junk this Chromebook is.
Zhamlin/tiler.vim: Tiling window manger for Vim
> Measuring the technical capabilities of an imaging device is patently obvious and justifiable. From dynamic range to optical and electronic resolution, noise at different light levels, etc.

I agree completely. DPreview and other sites do that.

> but saying that it "doesn't measure anything" is nonsense

Then please tell me what that one final number measures. How do they get to it? It doesn’t seem objective at all.

Other camera review sites give a bunch of objective measurements then a subjective opinion about how the camera related to others.

DXO wants you to think their arbitrary number is scientifically rigorous.

> and citing a guy who laughably claims that you can't measure the "art" is uproarious.

Are you claiming you can measure art? That’s what DXO seems to do. Having a single number final score means that if camera A had a higher score than B then it must take objectively better pictures.

Or we have to admit their score is subjective.

> Gruber has less than zero legitimacy in this discussion

Why?

> and his sole motivating intention is defend Apple in all facets.

He’s complaining that the iPhone had the highest score ever. If you were right he would be writing about how DXO said it was the best camera ever, not that DXO is a sham.

If you can’t look past Gruber’s byline I imagine there are other articles online about DXO and their questionable practices. I’ve seen others before, this was the first Google turned up.
Could you share your email transition strategy? Any tips? Do you still end up checking the account?
erm from https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHz1WNEXcAEVEHr.jpg "I spoke to the leadership there and they restored accounts"

doesn't sound a lot like the standard support process to me.
Thanks for that piece of feedback. Team's looking into it.
Also, numbers often don't mean much, or at least not what most consumer think they do. I've seen so many people choosing product A over product B because the "ram" number was bigger and the price was lower.

The situation is that as hardware levels off more and more, with Moore's Law slowly dying, the onus falls much more on software to make up for it. That's why a phone like the Pixel feels much smoother and responsive than other Android phones, which run on the exact same hardware.
Interesting, but the results seem kind of misleading. For example, https://sitestacks.com/linestarve.com says I'm using "NameCheap Web Hosting" -- they're my registrar, but I run my own HTTP server for that domain. Meanwhile https://sitestacks.com/analytics.bitmash.io reports that it's built with Piwik (true, but I would expect that to appear on a page using Piwik, which it doesn't), but for some reason leaves out all mention of webserver, DNS hosting, and so on.