skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an interesting observation that does seem true. However, I also think there's a very benign explanation for it. Something we forget is that news agencies are not benevolent. The themes a news organization publishes are not going to be based upon what is most valuable to society, but what is most valuable to them.

Right now all traditional media (mostly as opposed to social media) is seriously struggling. Traditional media has been experiencing constant downsizing/layoffs and other consequences. And this includes big names like the New York Times. Cable news networks are likely only continuing along since they're owned by huge, profitable, corporations that can subsidize their operation in exchange for the valuable ability to use them to push agenda.

So what I'm getting at here is that if public reception and 'excitement' towards anti-fracking started to decline, news agencies would begin to cover it less and move to more exciting things that bring in the clicks which bring in the revenue. Blaming Silicon Valley is something that will likely continue to bring in hits since we live in this really paradoxical economy. By most of all measures, our economy is doing terrifically - yet simultaneously we're seeing things like real wages remaining stagnant for decades. So people want things to blame. And Silicon Valley is an easy target as it's seen as a realm of excess and increasingly societal apathy on part of the big players. This [1] single [phenomenally well framed] image is likely an embodiment of how many see the increasing divide. Makes for good clicks in any case!

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/hCK2OiS.jpg
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TD-Gammon was taught to us as a part of a classroom course on Reinforcement Learning (RL) in 2007. ML was known to a small set of people back then, there weren't many jobs in the area (this is in India), and even to many in this set, RL was either not known or not well known. It's interesting to see RL surge in popularity. In fact just a couple of weeks back, I was talking to the professor who taught us that course, and it was fun comparing ML/RL related awareness then to now :-)
Which is your personal opinion. Your personal opinion is not more important than the needs of a significant portion of users.

The proper question here has to be what pisses off more users and to what degree does it piss them off: Having to click "Don't ask me again" once after a fresh installation or repeatedly losing some tabs they had opened in the background, because they forgot about them.
The clothing industry could really use some a shared, standard set of measurements. Even though bodies are all different, most of them have a lot in common. When three pairs of pants with the same waist "size" can vary in circumference by three or more inches[0], it's all but worthless.

[0] http://flowingdata.com/2010/09/30/advertised-vs-actual-waist...
As much as I think the Russian interference in the US election was a catastrophe for American democracy, the blame lies at least as much with western intelligence services that continued to poke the Russian bear well after it started showing its teeth, with no real plan for what to do when it started biting.
Can Mugabe fix Facebook?

No. And Germany can't either. The ruling German junta uses it's power to censor unwanted opinions and facts on Facebook.

German Govt Hires Ex-Stasi Agent To Patrol Facebook For ‘Xenophobic’ Comments

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/17/german-govt-hires...

Xenophonic comments are for example that the flood of migrants is illegal, e.g. breaking Dublin III regulation and other laws which was declared void by the direct executive order of Angela Merkel. That the German constitution does not allow executive orders, does not makes it easier.

A well known German lawyer keeps track of some deleted postings (German required):
https://facebook-sperre.steinhoefel.de/
Or in the parlance of probability theory: "The expectation of the posterior probability, after viewing the evidence, must equal the prior probability."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence...

(Notice the accompanying proof.)
2015 (before election even got into high gear)

Hillary's fake followers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLI... (many variations of this story on various sites)

early 2016: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/04/28/in-world-of-intern...

Obvious evidence of Hillary re-tweet fakery:

http://sadbottrue.com/article/chapter-28-hillarys-junk-bot-r...

http://sadbottrue.com/article/chapter-27-order-followers-for...

PS: https://www.twitteraudit.com/HillaryClinton
Try doing modern development with those old tools.Let's see if you are as productive as you think.

It's insane to think that modern tooling doesn't affect results at all.
> If Android had USB sync, I'd consider converting. But swapping one cloud ecosystem for another just doesn't work for me, I want to keep my data offline.

Uuuh,it does last time I checked. You can even create backups with debug enabled. Nobody uses it though because plugging the phone to the PC is annoying.

You are also not required to use the Google drive services for file syncing. Setting up an owncloud server gives you pretty much the same benefits and interactions that gdrive provides
This setting is not available in my Facebook video settings.
You would think so, but that turns out not to be the case. Mostly because it doesn't require humans to think of edge cases. It also more closely addresses the actual problem of "do these things look similar when rendered on screen" as opposed to the abstract problem. For instance, render and score catches "rn" being visually similar to "m".
Respectfully, I disagree with the absolutist view that policing and banning is /never/ a good idea. Phishing is rightfully unlawful, and its wholly appropriate for the mechanisms of society to fight against it.

There is a balance to be made for sure, but in the case of both domain and app names, I'd argue that the harms from fishing outweigh the freedom of expression conferred by being able to register "Αpple.com". While the names of things do carry some expression, things have names primarily so you can tell them apart. Its a well settled moral principal that we should have rules to preserve the utility of names as monikers, and that its entirely possible to construct rules for that purpose that have a negligible effect on freedom of expression. If you disagree, then show me the developed country that decided it didn't need a trademark law.

Your hypothetical German expat in India is welcome to try to convince the Indian authorities that the ability to register können.in outweighs the value in preventing amazön.in from being registered. Maybe there are more Germans in India than I know, or maybe phishing causes less economic harm in India than it does in the US.

App store names are harder, because you don't have TLDs giving you a hint to what language(s) most of your users speak. But you can still disallow mixing of Latin, Green and Cyrillic alphabets; you can still say that if you are going to use the crazy accents used in Vietnamese, that you can't also use umlauts; you can still whitelist unicode characters as needed, so that you don't have a dozen different spaces and dashes for no reason; you can still use other signals to give language hints. And as it turns out, most people running app stores have a large pile of money they can use to curate and maintain good automated rules, and hire people to manually audit names when the automated heuristics think its fishy but not fishy enough to automatically disallow, or in response to complaints.
Well they can disagree, but React is vastly larger (in both usage and community), so I would say his comment stands.
I can imagine that burn-in could be corrected for, per-subpixel, in software, periodically with a calibration step using a external scanner that measures the altered voltage response of each subpixel.

In software it would boil down to one final compositing step to compensate.
Michigan went to Trump. They need to read more non-dangerous books.
{S c:\con\con }
Having now spent some time in a proper city, I'm pretty well in agreement with this. Though I often find it's more of a shocking display less often than it's actually violent. It's a tough thing to pinpoint in people though. Is this person going to be violent or are they just dealing with a voice in their head? More often than not, when I've spoken with these people it's been an amicable interaction and they're just dealing with their situation. This would likely be different if I weren't trying to treat them as an equal—which they are—and instead attempting to give them "advice" or confronting them.

For those who think otherwise, try putting yourself in someone else's place. What would it be like if heroin was the only thing silencing the voice in your head telling you to kill yourself or others? What if the system that aids you alternative ways of dealing with that condition was non-existent? What if all those things are true, but also your family is dead or has abandoned you?
The "Donald Trump" caveat:

>the behavior is newsworthy and in the legitimate public interest.

Basically, you can still harass and intimidate people, just make sure it generates enough ad impressions.
Research suggests hiking is the most underrated workout
Exactly. It is a market out of whack.
I don't remember how I stumbled onto it but I ended up using Pledgie who then uses PayPal under the hood... it sucks. Pledgie takes some reasonable cut but then PayPal considers it a business transaction and takes like a flat $0.30. Remember when I said a few low dollar amount donations? I end up losing 20-30% due to PayPay/Pledgie overhead.

I then tried adding a Bitcoin donation link in markdown in my README (before the transaction fees got silly) but the GitHub and NPM don't know what to do with it.
You might change the location of locations.text or store the locations in a database, or on the cloud, etc. You shouldn't change the commitment your service has to vend data about locations etc. You make a contract saying you will do X when given Y but you don't commit to anything about how you will do it, and that can change as necessary.
Didn't read the article, but i believe the threat to democracy is largely because Facebook is a centralized platform. They have an enormous amount of power because they can directly influence the type of information their users consume. They essentially have control of a 1b+ herd....
Wouldn't that require quite a lot of processing power? Effectively you're logging the power to each subpixel, for ever.
> In software it would boil down to one final compositing step to compensate.

Is this a technique that's used often? I'm curious what the cost of such a step would be. How much lag would it cause?
In regards to social media and fake news, I am thinking more and more about a talk that Professor Peter Kruse gave three years ago about the tendency of such systems for hysteresis effects.

If you understand German you can watch it here (6 min).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEEDB7ViyQ

("Und bist Du nicht willig, so brauch ich ....Geduld".. :-)
Non-Paywall archive http://archive.is/ytv5S
Having a few centralized companies and a handful of decision-makers at those companies be responsible for policing what is effectively on track to become all of the worlds communication and public discourse is unsustainable and fundamentally impossible anyway. I don't have a solution but it has to change.
Non-amp link https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia...
Thats a long time to wait for the payment. Did you ever consider court?
Whoops, yes my bad. -Wpacked will just issue the warning, not actually do the packing!
While that's true, I don't think it's the core of it.

As people, we like to be right. So we're drawn towards people who tell us we are right. Social media lets that take over our lives entirely - we can now live happily without ever hearing an opinion we disagree with. My neighbour and I might live one door from each other yet occupy totally different echo chambers.

I think you see this in the way people view Trump, Brexit and the like. No one's preconceptions are challenged any more.
> I feel like you'd look positively ghoulish if you pulled out of Germany because of the privacy laws after cooperating with Pakistani authorities who are executing people for making posts on Facebook they deem blasphemous.

Two wrongs do not make a right. I think that Germany has a right to regulate speech, and Facebook should pull out.

Just like they should have pulled out of Pakistan.

Facebook is pandering to China because they need places to grow. And 1.4 billion people is quite attractive.
Useful perspective that speaks about how the USSR was different from Marx's actual writings:

https://youtu.be/3AvA73mH9dk?t=10m00s

The USSR was a totalitarian regime, not really socialist in the sense of anarcho-socialism or libertarianism which was the kind of socialism that was popular in the 19th century, eg Proudhon's writings or Oscar Wilde's essay "man's soul under socialism" and all those european libertarians.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
The off-angle thing is definitely noticeable; it gets bluer the more you rotate the phone.

However, I've only actually seen it happen when intentionally rotating the screen beyond anything I would normally do, to see the blue effect. Not really a factor in day-to-day use for me, or, I suspect, most people.

The vague warning on burn-in sounds a little bit alarming. Couple years back, I had a MacBook Pro that had that well-known "image persistence" defect and that drove me nuts. I hated and quickly sold that machine.

Having said that I have not seen anything like that yet on my talking poo phone.

(I should also probably add that this is by far the best screen I have ever seen in my life... to the point that I am a little less satisfied with my 5K desktop monitor and iPad Pro screen than I was last week :-P )
Take a look at bytebuddy [0] and Janino [1]

[0] http://bytebuddy.net/#/

[1] http://janino-compiler.github.io/janino/
it would work if the burn in remains constant but I'd assume the affected area gradually changes intensity with time.
I have always maintained that Communism is a good idea on paper that is not very practical. The sheer amount of misery it's been causing is a testimony to this.

On the other hand, pure capitalism is harmful as well, to a lesser degree though. The sweet spot may be the right balance of Socialism and Capitalism.
Your idea would indeed take a lot of power and probably suffer from precision issues. What GP was talking about was a set up where you would be able to take a picture of your phone's screen and then overlay a transparent inverse image to counteract the burn in. A single overlay would be child's play for the X's GPU, and you could put scanners in Apple stores. This would have the added benefit of getting customers back into the stores every few months.
> All the automated or manual safeguards that Google could enact would never prevent people from pulling a fast one,

This is a copout. Nobody ask Google to review the source code of each app uploaded. There are plenty of basic things google could put in place to make sure blatant fraud doesn't happen. But they don't, because they don't care or don't want to allocate resources to anything that doesn't have a high return on investment. And since the competition virtually does not exist...
That was the old Broadcom. The new company was formed in 2015 from acquisition by Avago Technologies.
What's a talking poo phone?
> I seriously don't understand how people let their aging parents or young children or friends use Android phones.

Your comment is a strawman, anybody can be fooled by these kind of dirty tricks. This isn't about users, this is about what Google is not doing upstream to prevent basic fraud on their platform.
Creating isn't just about "content". Posting vapid updates and linking to articles that other people wrote isn't really creating anything. For most people, posting on social media is consumption, not creation. The Internet is on its way to becoming TV 2.0.

There are at least two ways to perceive the world: as an "architect" or as a "consumer". The Internet/WWW should teach people how to be architects, but it's failing in many ways.
The author doesn't distinguish between socialism and communism.

Socialism is the government owning means of production. Communism is a form of government. As he mentioned, some communist countries (China) have managed to become capitalist.

The bloodshed from socialism (no private property) is well documented.

I still do not understand people who apologize for socialism saying that it wasn't implemented well. Capitalism might not be implemented well, and it seems to work.
They'd have to be qualified enough to get an actual offer. He didn't say anyone interviewing would get the $500. Not sure what sort of gaming could be done with that criteria. And with that carrot for qualified people, he's likely to get more applicants than otherwise, which is the point.
I guess I feel like your sentiment is silly when the same is easily said about America (and capitalism). To say lesser degree is to say “I value occidental ideology and problems over those of others.”

The sweet spot lacks corruption. It’s as simple as that. To inflate one over the other seems silly as they’re all good on paper and failures in reality.

We’ve neve had capitalism, we have cronyism and “socialism for the rich,” as my economics professors would...
I am generally on your side of the argument. Non the less. There is this voice inside my head that asks, if by not countering such antisocial behaviour we send the signal that this behaviour actually is ok.

When people learn that they get what they want by acting as assholes, why should they change?

In Germany we had a saying that it takes a whole village to raise a child. But these days if you tell a anti-social kid on the train to be more civil the parent tends to scold you.
Here we go again, another attack on gaming culture without any actual research into the topic. GamerGate had nothing to do with misogyny - yes here were bad actors in the movement but GameGate started much earlier than Zoë Quinn - it started with the end of Mass Effect 3 when gamers complained the game was an unfinished mess and both the developer and the gaming media called us all entitled neckbeards. Zoe Quinn was just another chapter in this long saga of collusion between media and industry. None of those death/rape threats have been proven or arrests made so anyone who believes this and writes articles on it has an agenda to push further for attention from the other side of GamerGate - the social justice warriors. It’s ridiculously easy to game them too - write outrageous articles about misogyny like this one and they’ll gang up to get the subject of the article fired from his job.
I've done a couple of contracts through them. For the most part it's beem a good experience.

They try to vet the clients as well as the coders / talent, but it's not perfect process so sometimes a dud falls through the cracks. They do have solid procedures for both the client and freelancer to follow if either party isn't happy, which includes the person who set up the engagement initially.

Much better than the other sites.
Isnt't it easier to disable contributed content alogether, then go through the hassle of checking it? You'd also need a lawyer to do that. Which is probably why most German news outlets don't have comments sections.
Seems very unsuitable for using Waze or other nav apps then, typically an app that keeps your display at relatively high brightness for a long period of time with partially static content.

I suppose for Pokemon Go, but who still plays that anyway.
Seems like the current narrative spread by all the mainstream media is "censorship is good for you because... Russia". Ironic, especially considering the commentary in the very same media outlets a couple years back when Russia was trying to censor the Internet.
I think one of the most fundamental problems is the highlighting of things based on likes/dislikes/voting. It inherently drives people to polarization and is a very soft target for gaming. If you look at boards that use old chronologically ordered systems that are not threaded, there tends to be much more diversity of thought. A comment is just a comment - just like real life. People say smart things, people say stupid things. And the same people often do plenty of both. When you read a thread some comments you might love, some you might hate - but instead of focusing on one or the other you get a flow of ideas and views of all sorts. Instead in ordered/threaded systems we obsess over singular comments and the comments themselves become centers of discussion.

One of the first effects is that the only thing that gets visibility when there are 'opposed' groups (in other words groups that do not upvote one another -- this effect is even more exagerrated when we introduce downvotes) is the largest plurality. One view has 51% of the support, the other has 49%. The 49%, even though it represents practically half of all views, would be buried anytime it's mentioned. You'd expect there to be about a 49% chance of any comment you read of being a 49% view. Instead you'll read each and every single 51% comment until you get down to the bottom sorted 49% views. Consequently we see groups begin to splinter off into their own little spaces where they can discuss things separate from the 51%. And just like that you have fermenting radicalism.

An analogy I quite like is to imagine we're trying to solve a math problem. The correct answer to this problem is 0. However, one side believes the answer is absolutely at least 50. And the other side believes the answer must be no more than -50. When these two groups remain within contact, they counter balance each other. But now let's isolate these groups. In the past when the -50 side chose to go -60 there would be some push back against that and it would help create a more of a central equilibrium. But in isolation without opposition, -60 sounds awesome. Why not -70, or even lower? And on the other side an equal but opposite push for 60, 70 and more is simultaneously happening.

The more segregated we are, the more out of touch with reality we become.
> pure capitalism is harmful as well,

It's not like we have ever experienced it. We have never seen capitalism running free without major State intervention. At best we get Crony capitalism these days which is nothing like "pure capitalism".
I'm speculating a Mr Hankey (South Park) reference to the major advance of an animated poo emoji in the latest Apple phone release.
Russia did collude with social media to buy ads for democrats. But it didn't work.
The tweets of the President have to be allowed, for being newsworthy.

Suppose they banned him, and then someone else reported on what he said. Would they ban that person too, even though they are just reporting on the words of the most powerful person in the world? The words of the President of the United States have to be allowed no matter what.

Twitter shouldn’t even get into this game. They should allow any content that is legal under US law.
That's one of the shameless Palatino clones, of which there are several. They're all basically indistinguishable, all inferior to the original metal version, and all ethically dubious. (Exactly copying someone's years-long labor of love and then slightly changing the name and redistributing it as a new product might be the norm for some type foundries, and the precise legal questions are murky, but it's pretty scummy.)

If you want to ethically typeset something in Palatino, try Palatino Nova. https://www.linotype.com/615716/palatino-nova-family.html
For anyone curious, the name for this type of deception (using Unicode to pretend to be a known domain) is called a homoglyph attack: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-se...