skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points, and i agree! I'd add that perhaps "slow boil" is good enough of a "success" for those efforts you noted. ;-)
They could be more transparent about ads by informing people who is sponsoring them. But that might upset their other advertisers.
Popehat on 18 U.S.C. 1001: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea...

Although it's a pretty general overview on how it can be used to beef up a conviction.
Culture is both a tool and side-effect of leadership. I talk about culture being the sum of all the actions of all the participants, but the funny thing is that culture also informs all those actions. Basically, there's a self-reinforcing feedback loop here, and that's one of the reasons why changing negative cultural aspects is both hard and important. It's hard because you'll be working against the currently ingrained culture. And it's important because you must break that self-reinforcing loop in order to affect real change.

And yes, CEOs can make tactical decisions, or at the very least give final approval on them. I think in smaller companies they tend to be more involved in such decisions, and as the company grows it becomes impossible to keep up and it gets delegated out. But in my opinion, those tactical decisions like the ones you list don't exhibit leadership as much as they need a leader to make them. It's a reversal of the reasoning: People aren't leaders because they make those decisions; they make those decisions because they're leaders.
If you get a typical 4 years grant, on average you already had 2 years of stock market exposure on the price...
Jade Helm is mentioned as one of many stories mentioned in this testimony by Clint Watts concerning on Russia's information war:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/clint-watts-testimony-russias-...

It does seem like there are a fair bit of analysts in United States intelligence (Clint Watts being on that side of the fence, essentially) who strongly believe that RT or Sputnik are less media sources, and are instead funnels of disinformation propaganda designed to destabilize the United States government. Whatever your personal opinion of these media sources are, in this light, Twitter's action here is hardly surprising.
In the early days of the iPhone, I had some software that kept offline maps (xGPS, I think) to save on bandwidth and in case you were out of the service area. Anyway, I had a similar experience driving from LA up to near San Luis Obispo. It took me off US101 and up the San Marcos Pass Rd IIRC, and potentially other roads. That was a beautiful drive through hills and vinyards. No idea why it decided to do that, but I'm glad it did!
Another quote from the same article, a paragraph or two later:

> Of course, these analyses don’t unequivocally prove that screen time causes unhappiness; it’s possible that unhappy teens spend more time online. But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness. One study asked college students with a Facebook page to complete short surveys on their phone over the course of two weeks. They’d get a text message with a link five times a day, and report on their mood and how much they’d used Facebook. The more they’d used Facebook, the unhappier they felt, but feeling unhappy did not subsequently lead to more Facebook use.
-- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the...
I am reluctant to use a buzzword like "fake news" when I have been reading Chomsky's detailed critiques of American newspapers for a long time and have been (for a long time) well aware of the significant political and corporate motivations behind news organizations (print and television).

What are the "memes" (per Dawkins' definition) that RT intends to publicize? Which of those are false, which are true but misleading, and which are actually true?

Does publishing stories that might make some voters angry with the status quo constitute being "fake news"?

Is RT "fake news" simply because of its origin? Or because of its content? Or because of the timing of its content? Specific examples please.

Under whatever definition you would use to classify RT as fake news, are any American news orgs (NYT, WaPo, CNN, Fox News, WSJ, etc.) also fake news? How do you draw the line? Is it based on content that is false, true but misleading, or true?

Do you believe that certain ideas are dangerous for Americans to believe? Should reading the writings of some of history's dictators be banned? Should violent music lyrics be banned?
I'm a little surprised at how surprised people are here, at how much work is done per frame!

Sure, game engines are really complex and impressive, but the same is true of a lot of other kinds of software. If you work on websites, have you thought about how much processing goes on when loading and rendering a page?
> I don't think he's nearly famous enough for anything he says to be talked about years later.

I would put money on this being used in future education as an example of why you should listen to your lawyers when they say "don't make a statement". Because it is a classic.
Well, it is considerably more expensive.
On his Facebook page, Robert Scoble wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/kH6DsGA.png

"Robert Scoble: Andrew Brackin I have NOT deleted ANY comments. They may have deleted them. I did not."

That was a bald faced lie. He's deleted a whole hell of a lot of comments, along with his original non-apology-apology.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/20/robert-scoble-has-allegedl...

"Update: Scoble has since deleted his original apology and now posted a lengthy rebuttal to the reporting done by TechCrunch and other publications on his personal site."
>To be fair, I'm not even sure if Numenta's networks could perform competently at any classic benchmarks (I'm guessing that if they could, it would take some work to get them to do so), and I have no idea what new problems it could work on. But they really do need to reframe the conversation and emphasize that sort of innovation if they want to be taken more seriously - focusing on neuroscience underpinnings is not a great move if they're not engaged in research that can actually win over neuroscientists, and just pointing out that they're focusing on those things is not a way to win over industry ML folks if they don't have any results to point at.

It was definitely a jab, but I've also got some sympathy for their project. I genuinely agree that, well, theoretical and computational neuroscience need to become more genuinely computational! We're seeing an emerging computational paradigm for neuroscience that isn't just about jamming "network architectures" or "neural circuits" together and hoping something works; it supposedly has strong mathematical principles.

Ok, so where's the code? Sincere question. Some papers do simulations in Matlab, R, or Python that's just not shared. This includes even papers that purport to be applying these neuroscience-derived principles to robotics problems.

Computational cognitive science does a bunch better: their custom-built Matlab gets shared!

If we really believe our theories, we should put them to the computational test. If we put them to the test and they don't work well, we should either revise the theories, or revise the benchmarks. Maybe ImageNet classification scores are a bad idea for how to measure precise, accurate sensorimotor inference! New benchmarks for measuring the performance of "real" cognitive systems are a great idea! Let's do it!

But that requires that we do the slow work of trying to merge theoretical/computational neurosci, cognitive science, and ML/AI back together, at least in some subfields. This is challenging, because nobody's gonna give us our own journal for it until a few prestigious people advocate for one.
I found this neat crime vs population density study, but as with most things, you answer one question and end up with more:

https://blog.nycdatascience.com/student-works/pressure-cooke...
Yet I don't see them purging Islamic subreddits.
There's a hilarious parallel here between Monsanto and your average tech company that had an innovative hit.

Glyphosate was an awesome herbicide and Roundup Ready crops a big hit, but between the expiration of patents and the introduction of generic glyphosate-resistant crops and the increase in glyphosate-resistant weeds, it's losing its value, both to the company and to the consumers. So they need another hit.

And like a million tech companies before them, they took an uninspired rehash of their first hit, ignored feedback from early adopters and internal dogfood about glaring problems with the new product and are trying to push it as the second coming. And now they're lashing out at anyone who says it isn't, and insist their new product is as revolutionary as their first.

Only, you know, it's not bloggers and tech journalists they're mad at, it is farmers and scientists.

It's almost funny when it happens to someone else.
Wolfram's A New Kind of Science describes cellular automata in detail. The online version is free, https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ A used copy is typically inexpensive and worth reading in my opinion, though other people have substantially different opinions and express them willingly.
Unless google factors this in and shards traffic appropriately over multiple routes?
Of course there’s nothing inherent about it, but it does seem that many games companies do follow some rather predatory practices.
> I hope he stops talking long enough to realize his own pain, as excruciating as it is, isn't the story here.

To be fair, if he had that amount of empathy and self-reflection, he wouldn't be in this situation.
Hehe, probably you have better understanding of running a business than many business owners.

(One pitfall however is that some bootstrapped business owners become unreasonably cheap even when there is reason not to be.)
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Russia has long played up domestic strife in the US to disprove the notion of American exceptionalism. Embarrassment over America's portrayal abroad was a key reason the Kennedy administration grudgingly supported aspects of the civil rights movement.

On the other hand, there are plenty of international news organisations shining a light on the parts of America that Americans don't want to see, and none of those news organisations are operating under the direction of a foreign power. RT is quite clearly seen by the Russian government as a useful propaganda tool, and not a news outlet that would ever challenge the current Russian government's malfeasance.
Public opinion and intervention are two different things. Free speech is protected while a foreign government working to benefit a candidate is not. If the US was using CNN to plant false narratives, that would be a similarly egregious offence.
Last time I read about it, it was still the users choice whether they wanna see those non-aggresive ads. Did it change?

Personally I see it as a good choice. I don't have a problem with ads themself, but with aggresive or harmful ads. So educating the companys to use better ads is good for the users.
If we had a time machine, it would be interesting to test the recall ability of Socrates and those of his ilk vs those who focused on written words. Perhaps there are indeed tradeoffs.
I sell immediately. But I currently work in a relatively old tech company. My belief is that I already have too much invested in my company with them paying my salary. If I add on having a large portion of my savings as company stock then it would be double the trouble if the company had financial problems which caused the stock to fall and them to lay me off.

I can remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal and how some people had all of their 401k money in Enron stock. They got laid off and their 401k balance went to $0 :(

Myself I sell my RSUs and invest them in a low cost S&P 500 index fund instead.
Is Datomic strictly better than Facebook's graph datastore?
You put it in quotes like it hasn't already been proven that Russian led a massive effort to influence the election via social media.
measuring output of intellectual pursuits is a fool's game. that history professor may be spending all their time watching Netflix, or they might be reading and thinking and conversing with their colleagues, participating in the general intellectual milieu, without publishing anything, but still making a positive and important contribution to society.

Besides, sometimes you will pursue an idea for a year or two and find out that it comes to nothing, and you have very little to show for it. But not giving professors the space and trust to do just that is counterproductive in the long run.
That isn't the case. Most physical constants do have units, such as G=6.67408(31)×10^−11 m^3⋅kg^−1⋅s^−2
Multiple outlets. WashPo and NYTimes are the major national papers. PBS News Hour has multiple investigations of coverage. As do policy, media, and general-press magazines.

Your representations (in this thread and elsewhere) simply fail to accurately reflect the facts.
Wow, this really has everything – the poor Brits against the evil Brussels bureaucrats and environmental activists.
Google astroturfing... it’s a huge industry. Not a made up conspiracy theory. It’s as benign as a filing thousands of individual orders with different book stores to get a new author listed on the NYTimes best seller list and as malicious as making up fake personalities to promote obvious lies. Public relations, public affairs, and marketing companies are heavily involved.
These reports are always well written and interesting reads. Thanks for continually producing them!
Hasn't Assange said that the campaign reached out to them? Opposition research is not extraordinary. Wasn't it revealed the Trump Dossier was paid ofr by Podesta/DNC?

They all do the same stuff.

That said, what has WikiLeaks published that has turned out untrue?

[fixed Pedestal/Podesta autocomplete]
He's less capable and more easily thwarted and has awakened the fourth estate.
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Next up: twisting your environment into a pretzel to use Apple Watch as your main computer for programming!
Great Distributed TensorFlow Guide, worth following through and getting things set up.
Yeah, agreed.

When we moved to Dallas from NYC (about a 1400 mile move), we did it with our car and a my then-new pick up truck. I bought the truck in Dallas then drove it up to NYC, loaded it and drove it back. She loaded the rest of the stuff into the car and drove it down. I could have stuffed way more stuff into the truck bed had I bought a Leer cover, but I learned that buying truck accessories in NYC is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE unless done online. (I also didn't want to spend $800 on it. I bought a soft Tonneau cover from Amazon for $200. Still works great!)

We spent about $3000 doing the move, much of it being spent on new furniture. That same move would have cost us >$8000 with a moving company, and then you need to hope that the moving company isn't shit.
> Even though email is listed as a premier example of decentralization, it is also de facto centralized around gmail and a few other major providers.

A few is a lot more than one, though. Even if 90% of email users are on gmail, you can still run your own sever and interoperate with them. Not so with closed networks like Facebook. A decentralized network with big players is a very different thing than a centralized network.
Yes. Their entire Erdogan files release was a tragedy from start to finish

They released a bunch of info claimed to be mails from the inner echelons of the AKP (ruling Islamist party) that turned out to be an archive of a public Yahoo group used by random Turks to bitch about things including politics.

If they'd have hired a basic Turkish speaker to look at the leak, they'd have avoided being burned. Instead, they decided to get into a spat with an actual journalist and researcher who's been working against Erdogan for years and tried to paint them as Erdogan shills.
A pornographic photo does not necessarily imply a consent form.

Somebody that watches videos or looks at photos does not "actually know what is happening". They are trusting this exercise to the distributor, and if the distributor is just a medium that does not concern themselves with checking for consent (e.g. most free sites), then you have just delegated to somebody this is not performing this work for you. In that case, you have no way of being able to gauge whether some pornography has had somebody else's consent or not.

Consider also, the idea that not all pornographic actresses/actors are happy with having their content distributed to non-paying consumers, and I think it's highly likely that you and people you know have broken the law and not received consent for at least some of the content you've viewed.
The Logitech Create keyboard/case [0] for the 12.9 iPad Pro works great on my lap. The new Logitech Slim Combo case/keyboard [1] has a removable keyboard that doesn't work well on a lap but makes using it as a tablet easier.

Both keyboards are backlit and I like typing on them.

[0] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/create-ipad-pro-keybo...
[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/slimcombo?crid=1762
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Are you saying they are withholding information or that they only get one side of the information?

They can't publish what they don't receive.
I’ve made contact on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/lloydde_/status/92357543379843481...
And yet amateur musicians are still practicing and performing. In fact, digital technology is enabling us amateur musicians to practice and get together in new ways. To give just one example (in which I recently participated) that's enabled by the Internet and the ease of repeatedly listening to a recording for reference: https://www.festivaloffriendsevents.com/ Edit: A little more explanation is in order. The event organizer announces a date, a theme, and a set list. We amateur musicians register, each stating our primary part and reserving our songs. Then we practice at home, using the studio recordings for reference. Finally, we get together and just play the songs. WIth no group rehearsal, sometimes it's not perfect, but it's fun.
Nothing you mentioned is being affected by this change. They are no longer to purchase advertisements, but you can still follow RT and get news updates from them.

Your post is just as much a political statement as Twitters, which is hilariously ironic.
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> I believe that Russia, and only Russia, won the election in 2016.

The problem is that you also need the gutted Voting Rights Act, rampant GOP gerrymandering, and the ridiculous favouring of Southern States by the Electoral College to get the win - and those have much more of an effect than a Russian finger on the scales.
> How do we know for sure that we're not in the Matrix? Can we be sure?

If we observe no effects then the most parsimonious explanation for our experiences is that we're not. We can't ever be sure, because someone could be in the Matrix and have absolutely identical experiences to our own. Occam's Razor tells us what's most likely (and you can get more specific than that, putting numbers on it - see Kolgomorov complexity), but it's not 100% reliable.

> Does the very fact that we question our reality confirm our sentience or are our thoughts merely the output of algorithms we've been programmed with from the outset?

Try reexpressing that question in terms of something you could empirically observe. If you can't, the question probably isn't meaningful.
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A ToS which the tweets people are complaining that Twitter didn't ban Trump for did not violate. I mean, it should be obvious why Twitter doesn't consider support for war to violate the ToS clause on violence - otherwise, every publication which ran an op-ed supporting military intervention and linked it on Twitter would be violating the ToS. Not only that, there was a huge overlap between the people calling for Trump to be banned and the pro-nazi-punching (and pro-punching-anyone-who-wasn't-pro-nazi-punching) crowd who had been taking full advantage of the laxity of Twitter's "violence" clause in the ToS.

There underlying logic of the demands made no sense at all, but it didn't matter. Believing Trump had violated the Twitter ToS and should be banned was simply something you did if you weren't an evil Nazi Trump supporter.
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I almost always sell immediately. The only times I haven't are if I believe the stock is temporarily depressed and I am highly confident that it will recover. In my 20 year career, I think I've made that decision maybe 2 or 3 times. I am very happy with the results of selling immediately throughout that period. Could I have made more if I held on? Yes. But at a much higher risk, and for me that's not the tradeoff I want.
In the new version, there are separate accounts for "givers" (contributors) and "receivers" (creators / publishers).

So, just shuffling money around is neither the obvious nor the intended solution.
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Marketing FUD - nothing is a cure-all! No filter lasts forever! If you don't maintain a filtration system it will always fail! Common failure modes are reduced throughput and reduced efficacy. Carbon is cheap and effective for many requirements, which is why it is so commonly deployed.
"Throw him all the way down the stairs" is keeping with the "take him down a few pegs" metaphor. It's obvious it was not meant literally.
Going to second this, I keep a relatively up to date kali vm on hand, and it saves me the trouble of configuring and maintaining $randomtool I need when I stumble across the need for it, but I have my usual toolkit of security tools that I use on a daily basis deployed on my host OS as well.
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I'd say it's legitimate, just because simpler models have turned out to be true more often in the past, as best as we can tell.
But both are probably strongly determined by genetics, so the size of the people that "want" something probably isn't entirely relevant. It's the people that have the natural talent under the people that can do the work.
Let's be fair and hopeful that he may be able to come to such.
Not only that, but according to Bloomberg[1], Clinton raised 1,1191M for her campaing and Trump raised 646.8M for his.

Anybody, who claims that RTs and Sputniks $274,100 spent during the campaign had a material effect on the elections should very well explain, how the Russians are getting orders of magnitude better ROI than everyone else. I'm all ears and I'm sure all the DC lobbyists too.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
Not really, you can flattr others with it, but that is more because it would be strange if you could not do it.
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I was running my side project without docker and trust me it was making my life hell due to the difference in production and development environment and also a fear that if I drop this server how the hell am I gonna setup another server with a small amount of downtime. I started moving my side project to docker and in the process learned a lot about it. Now I can't work without a docker . It's not perfect but God it's so much better
You are definitely misconstruing her comment here. The fact that porn addiction may lessen the number of men that commit rape could be empirically true without any implication that all men are rapists (etc.)
This is why you heard stories of people getting heavily underwater when the stock that had vested crashed. Not many of these stories recently, but the time will come again.