skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't my Russian friends tweeting and sharing propaganda, it was my American friends doing it. I'd like to see a study behind memes and those who knowingly trolled this election cycle, treating it more like a sporting event. I mean, you do literally have millions in gambling during the election (all people who have an investment in their choice, regardless of their policies). Would be funny to see that American citizens created and shared more propaganda than any Russian disinfo campaign.
As with many things, the majority of optimization is necessitated by the minority of cases.

I was lucky and had an easy enough time with my son to not need an app, but not everybody is. Medical or other complications can increase the value of a solution like this.
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Just as a heads up, if you try to run this program with your monitor in portrait mode, the program defaults to full screen mode, but assumes a landscape monitor. The parts that are cut off are critical to getting the program to do anything at all, since you have to start by clicking on a green window that is off the side of the screen. Nice music though...
Which will win

1. Flattr
2. Basic Attention Token
3. Cryptocurrency browser mining?
Personally I like platforms like https://liberapay.com and https://gratipay.com which fund themselves via themselves. I certainly think that 7.5% is too high for the kind of service that Flattr provides.
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As I understood, there are 2 different apps: "Find it" and "Image search". If yes, .. why?
Are you really middle class? 1960s standard of living now affordable to very few
Same aplies to drinking beer.
> Specific examples please.

All their articles related to Ukraine: Donbass, Crimea, MH-17.

They're repeating same lies designed by Kremlin hosts.
Unfortunately the US government doesn't go after companies who do this in any significant matter and that makes the law worth as much as the ink it's written with. You can try suing but then you get known as the entry level employee whose litigious against their employers. The massive power imbalance between employee and employer prevents you from really exercising that protection.

The only industry I know of where interns get a decent deal is in software as companies are competing to try and get future employees, and those internships are only in the hot markets like SF
> Twitter is headquartered in the United States

So you expect companies to have jingoistic political allegiance to the jurisdiction that they happen to have been founded in? That is actually quite scary.

> strongly believes that Russian social media propaganda is attempting to destabilize the United States government

The key word here is "destabilize". If the NYT were to write a story about the water pollution in Flint Michigan and also break a story that officials covered up polluted water in 20 other major US cities, would that cause "destabilization"? I certainly hope it would! More than a few people should not win office again after such a fiasco.

The purpose of journalism is to be adversarial to powerful interests, and to share the truth (even if it's unflattering) with the public, so that corrective actions can be taken... corrective actions may involve changing the status quo.

As for "disinformation", nobody has pointed out what stories should be considered disinformation, and whether they were completely false, or if they were true but misleading.

Russia shutting down VOA is not terribly relevant here. The VOA is obviously propaganda if you listen for 10-15 minutes, while RT has focused on some important issues for the poorest Americans that do not get reliable coverage from other big media outlets.
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That's the problem: Saks Fifth Ave and Nordstrom are in the exactly same market. The upmarket is Bergdorf Goodman.
So to avoid somebody else taking my package, they just give somebody else my package?
That's simply appalling.
What an absurd situation.
It seems like everyone knows what a monster Monsanto has become but nobody can actually do anything about it.
Can you go into more detail? (Or point me at some up-to-date books or blog posts!)

I'm specifically curious about CPU-intensive stuff that is sharded out to multiple threads. That's your classic multithreaded programming, the sort of thing you'd do in scientific computing, but I always got the impression games people were skeptical about it, due to unpredictable performance and the high risk of bugs.
You're missing the point of the comment. The same company produces both products, and has a long history of manipulating media coverage in this manner.
The CTOs Github[0] has a single public project which is a fork of someone doing their test.

I was trying to find this world leading React developer and assumed it was the CTO.

From their job ad[1]

> As such, you will also be working alongside one of the leading React developers in the world who will assist you every step of the way.

0: https://github.com/ebyargeon

1: https://angel.co/bee-technologies-inc/jobs/275465-junior-fro...
At that point Epic were offering the UDK as the indie alternative. Unity absolutely showed them the way things were going in terms of monetizing technology. Especially given the at the time exorbitant license fees for UE3. Same thing happened at Crytek too.

Part of the continuing split of Unity indie and UE4 'AA/AAA' is less to do with the capabilities of each engine and more to do with who has the longest experience with each. They both are creeping in on one anothers turf in that respect.
That's a good point. For products that "everyone" uses, it seems to give the companies behind those products more power. And further empowering larger companies to go after smaller ones doesn't seem like a good change.
https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads
Ask HN: Where to ask dumb movie questions now that IMDB Message Board is gone?
I am kinda pissed about IMDB making decision to remove its Message Board months ago. I understand their economic decision. BUT as a foreign born person speaking English as a second language, sometime I just missed parts of the movie and want to ask somewhere. Reddit doesn't do it. Google search gave me tons of trash results from professional reviewers. What do you use?
Please name five honest journalism organizations.
This RT/Sputnik thing is probably misdirection, but knowing how Trump/Russia/etc got such good ROI is not hard to understand. The election came down to around 20k votes in three states. Combine an unprecedented data mining operation (Cambridge Analytica) with microtargetting enabled by social media companies, as well as the viral nature of fake news, its easy to see how a small amount of money can sway a marginal amount of voters in key states.
That’s a reason not to hold hold all your stock in the company. It’s not a good reason to not take a calculated risk wig some of it. Receiving vested shares of a publicly traded corporation you work for is one of the few situations where you can actually profit on insider information, if you’re share allocation is low enough as to not be caught by special rules. As a general principle you cannot be forced to sell your property. Insider trading is only on buying or selling shares. So if you receive vested shares, and then you decide not to sell based on insider info that you think the stock will go up, And then you finally do so later when that information is public and the stock does go up, that’s not illegal. (I’m not a lawyer, you should consult one etc. etc.)

Prudent financial planning would mean it is wise to put a large chunk of your savings in something other than the company you work for. But rationally optimal financial planning should incorporate the benefits of a vesting stock plan as well. It’s a balance.
> What is concerning is that Twitter controls a massive platform and has revealed itself to be heavily biased and intent upon ideological control of the content that exists on its platform.

Your entire post is making the assumption that Twitter did this because they just believed the US/Russia election meddling stories or something.

Maybe there was clear and documented malice involved? Who knows! Certainly not you. But, reading this and immediately thinking "Twitter has now admitted they are on the side of the Democrats and believes all these Russia stories" is foolish and fails to consider that maybe something weird _might_ be going on, and maybe Twitter actually made a good decision here.

Don't worry about me though, I read plenty of international news - but I'm not going to bother with state sponsored organizations like RT.
Are there no laws against this stuff?
McAfee says it no longer will permit government source code reviews
Where is the evidence to suggest that evaporated dicamba is able to condense in sufficient quantity to effect plants at a distance?

I've lived among large production farm, much of my life. The application of spray products (keyword: sprayers that produce mists of liquid products) are easily caught and carried by the lightest winds.

Dicamba does not "evaporate" in any appreciable amount. It is highly soluble in water and has a melting point 237-241 degrees F.... The water would evaporate, leaving the chemical behind.
Just adding - AliExpress has had similar feature for more than a year when I started using it. It doesn’t work really well though.
GlassDoor can serve that goal
Alternatively, and more likely, Google has a bespoke licence for it. They’re cooperating enough with JetBrains on this that they’re likely to have some agreements in place anyhow
> Sorry to go on such a wild rant, but I'm pissed.

Not at all. You make a good point. I was reacting to your comment about Netflix as if that were the main issue, but your reply makes it clear that you meant it as just the easiest illustration of a fundamental shift in dynamic. Thank you for clarifying (civilly rather than angrily, despite your obvious passion on the subject!).
You cam posit so and you would be very wrong. See first reply.

Also look up side effects of appendectomy on pubmed to see what functions it has.
Not sure if the same question ... but I worked for a company that recently went public. I can't sell for another 5 months. Currently my shares are worth over 300k. I am not sure how I decide what to do when my blackout ends.
> Bygone are the days (in the 18th-19th century) when a single brilliant scientist could singe-handedly revolutionize his field in his home lab (the "garage" of the day).

The rate of major paradigm shifts needs to decrease over time. If it doesn't, then we're working in a scientific livelock or chasing after a moving goalpost.
Campaign laws exist. It's absolutely possible that a small sum used illegally could have larger impact than a large sum spent legally.

(that said, I'm not an expert on campaign law and I'm not in a position to say what was/wasn't legal: I'm just trying to point out that it's not enough to look only at quantity spent)
Assange actually admitted that they have stuff on Trump that they didn't release.
I’ve used it frequently in the past. Biz would write up tickets in our own CMS. The form would help them format their stories and would also autocomplete based on steps in previous stories.

Upon submitting/editing it would create a ticket with the story. We also ended up having it create a branch once it was scheduled by product so engineers could git checkout storyXXX and see where the cucumber steps went yellow.

There is a pretty cool SaaS product that does this now more or less that I’ve only gotten to play with http://www.simian.io/
Anyone wanting to tinker with Cellular Automata may be interested in Golly [1], an open source cellular automata simulator which allows you to play with different neighborhoods and rules and see the results.

[1]. http://golly.sourceforge.net/
I can't really articulate why, but to me my salary and compensation is extremely private. I'm not ashamed of my compensation and I could justify it (compared to my peers for example), but it still seems like something that is extremely private. When I ask myself why I would care if my coworkers, family, friends, etc knew my compensation I can't come up with a solid answer. I am in my early 30s, if that matters.

If we think of compensation being directly and only related to the value that that person brings to a company, it seems like we're neglecting half the equation. The flow of value goes the other way as well - I would require higher compensation for the same value delivered if I did not like the company or the work environment for example. I could also require lower compensation if I really liked the company or work environment. How does this discrepancy have any bearing on compensation compared to a peer who is (for the sake of argument) delivering the same exact value to the company? This half of compensation is extremely personal and subjective.

If transparent compensation becomes the norm (or legally required), I can see myself migrating back to consulting work where I would charge by project or deliverable which would totally obscure my hourly compensation even if the contract itself was public.
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As soon as they vest. I'd sell them if I were you. I/you have enough risk tied up with a company simply from receiving a pay cheque from them.
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Why? You are basically being asked to rebuild a competitor application for them for free.

> It’s the uncompensated three month onboarding and training that sticks out to me.

This part is just cherry on top in all honesty. Its insane.
I would be highly suspicious of anything calling itself "wild" and "Atlantic" in the same breath. There is almost no wild Atlantic salmon fishery left in the United States and Canada. It's all farm raised. Occasionally you can find legitimately wild Atlantic catch in Scotland or Norway. But wild catch makes up less than 1% of all Atlantic salmon on the market.

So if you want wild salmon, start by looking for a Pacific label, a listed species, or a regional designation of some kind. That's still not a guarantee, but it narrows things down quite a bit.

For what it's worth, 90% of all salmon on the US market is farmed. So if you're at a restaurant or a BBQ and aren't sure what you're getting, you're probably getting farm-raised Atlantic salmon.
Which makes it extra hilarious that the interview, not even the internship, consists of “write the entire technology core of our business for us”.
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>if you have any evidence.

Like a letter of recommendation describing the work you did.
>"Stop right there"

Right-oh, king of the internet. I'll do exactly as you command.
What possible justification is there for submitting an in-progress legal document besides a mistake?
> The sad part is all the "scientists" who take money from them to do "research" and, shockingly, find only positive things about _________ products.

Broadly applicable
Don't make the same mistake that Clinton did in buying into the media narrative of a landslide. Their stats were bad, hands down. 538 had the odds much closer.
For the record, many implementors are against STC and PTC for a few reasons:

- It may be significantly slower than regular recursive calls (though this claim seems to be false both in practice and theory)

- It may break debug tools

- It may break browser telemetry (especially on IE)

Additionally, they would have to decide on an explicit syntax for STC (return.tail or something like that).

Personally, I would love to see STC anf PTC land so I can write proper functional code in JS. It would also make functional programming in JS easier to teach (less gotchas).

See TC39 discussion: https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es7/2016-...
NYT, CNN, etc. all use viral clickbait strategies. Using such strategies, one needs to "seed" the content on social media. Ads are an easy way to do this.

An increasing number of people get their news from social media, making the process of "seeding" very important to the publication process. Arguably a news org can't exist without this process working. They have to have someone on staff who can write the clickbait headline, and they have to have someone on staff who can place the ads on social media to seed the content.

By breaking RT's ability to do this, Twitter is exerting highly targeted editorial control over the content that hits its algorithmic feeds. Shameful stuff.
I think people just aren't used to what a GPU does. Most devs are familiar with CPU loads and doing all this work as a CPU task would be pretty tough.
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>This is nothing new though.

No one is arguing if it's new. The point is it was massive, sophisticated, and targeted. It was an organized attack. We can debate the history of election subversion some other time, but there is a real threat happening right now. Let's focus on that, yes?
Not if we use the force of government to flat out ban the practice.
POTUS has no more rights by law than any other citizen to make violent threats. POTUS has _authority_ to enact those threats in certain cases whereas one typically doesn't.

For instance -- I have the right to say 'Nazis should be punched in the face' in most circumstances. It would violate Twitter TOS to tweet that however and they'd be well within their right to take that message down or ban the account.

The 'spirit' of the TOS is civility in most part, not legality. Donald Trumps twitter account isn't civil.

And if you disagree about that, or about the spirit of the TOS so be it -- that is why things like terms of service are held to the more objective letter, and not the highly subjective spirit.
He may be better off in the long term, but short term unexpected unemployment hurts. Can hurt long term too, since you will have to take whatever job you can get as soon as possible (unless you have enough savings). And that job you get may not be at the same point as you were in your career progression, since many employers prefer to hire someone who is already working.
The brokerages I've received my RSUs through all give tax election option. I can elect to a) pay money ahead of time and keep 100% of my RSUs, b) sell to cover, where I keep ~70% of each grant and the rest goes towards taxes, or c) sell all immediately, regardless of blackout periods (though I can only change my selection during trading windows).

I had to pick one of them, so I think describing it as "setting up a 10b5-1 plan" might be inflating the difficulty of the process somewhat, even if that might be what I was unknowingly doing at the time.
Allowing a userspace application to crash the machine or break into the OS kernel is also a security violation that needs to be prevented; the consequences are less severe than when a web page does it, but it still shouldn't happen. So that should also be the same work in either case.
Yes, that is also shitty and should not be allowed.
What is your logic for thinking this is even possibly the case?

Consider something. Let's use Trump as an example, since the discussion of 'why aren't they releasing stuff on [the other side]' is generally connected to him. Imagine somebody had a treasure trove of leaked and compromising information on Trump. And they then submitted this information to Wikileaks. As the weeks and months passed by, it became clear to them that Wikileaks was not going to publish this information. Do you think they would not submit this to other media outlets? US media outlets would do absolutely anything for this sort of information.

I'm curious to see where my logic may be failing me.
Scoble himself has always overstated and self-aggrandized his own influence, as have so many others in the press, the industry, blogs and twitter (many of them actually trying to suck up to him and flatter him, in order to get a good mention in return -- see "Lesson 5: Reciprocate" below), which contradicts his current ploy of desperately trying to downplay his own influence so he can justify his behavior as "almost but not quite entirely unlike sexual harassment".

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16547332/robert-scoble-s...

Scoble has been called “one of the most influential players in the [tech] industry,” and one of the “top ten people to know in Silicon Valley.”

https://venturebeat.com/2015/01/28/5-things-silicon-valley-c...

The amount of love the tech community has for Robert Scoble is overwhelming. If the tech community were a country, Scoble would be its ambassador. Not only because we would want him to be, but because he truly knows more about the state of the global tech community than anyone else on planet Earth. I’ve known Scoble for seven years, and I’ve always been in awe of how much knowledge this man possesses about so many startups.

[...]

Lesson 5: Reciprocate

Due to his influential status, Scoble gets many perks from entrepreneurs around the world, just like most influencers do: Free gadgets, access to apps, invitations to visit conferences and stay in nice hotel rooms, and so on. These are usually forgotten by most influential figures in the Valley. However, Scoble never forgets these gestures and always acknowledges them — either through a Facebook post, tweet, or a reciprocal gesture. He doesn’t just take these benefits for granted like other folks of his caliber might.

Entrepreneurs, of course, appreciate this and remember him for it. Many of the activities throughout Scoble’s birthday for example, were contributed by individuals, due to their admiration for Scoble and appreciation of him.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-lorenzen/the-top-10-p...

3. Robert Scoble

Many people know Robert Scoble for his blog Scobleizer, which he wrote when he was working with Microsoft. Today, Scoble working for Rackspace and their sponsored community site Building 43, which focuses on highlighting and promoting cutting-edge startups and breakthrough technology. If you want to be featured in Silicon Valley, he is the individual to turn to. After all, his influence in the area is long-standing as Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley, just blocks away from Apple’s head office.
Yes, thank you.

I guess I was using the idiom wrong, it's apparently "take (one) down a peg" but I've always said "knock (one) down a peg," and when I say it I always pictured, in my head, a bunch of pegs lined up like stairs and someone being knocked "down" to a physically lower peg. it's actually one of the few idioms that prompts me have a mental image of it in my head.

I wonder what the actual origin of the idiom is.

"Violent" idioms are not uncommon:

"My wife is going to kill me when I get home."

"This company is raking me over the coals."

"That's it, the gloves are off."

"She's out for blood."
So how does the IRS treat vesting shares of a company like Uber? I doubt people get to make their own determination of the vest value, but I don't really know how the price is determined exactly.
You are missing my point. There's no longer an obvious source of information about what information is not a waste of time.
Interesting how we built a raw prototype about eight months ago (https://imgur.com/OIaQu7x), but it never took off (at least for the customer whom we've pitched).
To add to other's comments, the visual search can be quite useful comparing to terms search specifically for non-native speakers and people who are not skilled in fashion terms (i.e., the name of the material, pattern).
As for how accurate it is, this is indeed an existing problem. If you product set is significant (>10k products), then the visual search results can be entirely off the target, not surprised Ebay is dealing with the same problem.
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Was google wave the same as "wave" which then became "microsoft wave" which was the team/cvs/workflow product from ~2006 or so?