skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how Facebook will distinguish between a fake news and a sci-fi essay I just posted on my blog.
I'm guessing I'll be having close to zero visitors on my sci-fi blog.
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be directed at me or a general comment, but the internet was most certainly there when I started reading. In fact I hated reading when I was in middle school. It was only in my last couple years (of school) that I really started to enjoy it.
to you and parent, do you have sources beside pubmed to monitor medical knowledge ?
Miles Kimball has some great blog posts digging into the evidence for this: https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2017/9/21/obesity-is...
A porn company promises to insert customers into scenes using deepfakes
To close the loop: government immigration authority claims the right to use your social media accounts as input to determine whether you may enter the country.
The recent news about someone claiming to have Trump on tape saying nigger. If she actually released the tape or was able to prove that she had the tape, then I can understand all of the media attention. But right now it is just some crazy lady who claims to have dirt on Trump (similar that prostitute that was all over the news for claiming that Trump used her).
I have always suffered from some level of social anxiety, but never really considered it crippling. Years ago, I brought this up to a doctor who promptly prescribed me a drug of the benzodiazepine class. At first I felt like an idiot. Slightly less anxious I guess, but I became kind of loose of the mouth (like you get when you're drunk), forgot a lot of things, and generally didn't like it. However, I stuck with it and a strange thing happened - as I adjusted to the medicine, my anxiety started getting worse. At this point, not taking the medicine had a rebound effect as well that was pretty terrifying, so I avoided that. All the while I was trapped - I couldn't stop using it or I would have panic attacks, but using it was also seemingly causing an increasing paradoxical reaction. I got to a pretty bad place with this over a few months, and ended up having physical manifestations of my inner anxiety (cramps, pins and needles, sweating, inability to sleep, etc). Eventually the only way out was a lengthy taper off the drug. It was literally 3 months of hell. After finally getting back to baseline, my normal anxiety level returned and it seemed like a walk in the park next to what I was experiencing on the medicine.

The point of my anecdote? Medicine can often compound the problem or even create new problems that weren't there before. Once you're in the midst of this, it can be hard to even recognize the medication as the cause, specially if you're taking multiple medications. I'm not suggesting that anyone stop their medicine without talking to their doctor, but at least consider that the anti-anxiety cocktail you're on may be making things far worse. It happened to me, and some research has revealed that these paradoxical reactions are not at all uncommon.
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Not only in middle east, USA has setup dictatorships all over latin america and gained several enemies here too
We used Hipchat a lot back in the days. I remember the biggest frustrations for us was that there was no multi-team support, so co-workers were doing crazy workarounds with multiple copies of the same application on different icon and bundle ids. Additionally HipChat was down quite a lot from what i remember.
That's pretty racist.
I listened to it when it ran. They address no part of the allegations against Backpage and are in no way relevant to the criminal complaint against Lacey and Larkin.
It's optional, unfortunately.
This applies just as much to private sector RFPs too. If you're a vendor and you get an RFP out of the blue, you're not going to win it.

RFI process is usually far more open.
I've been using this instead of tmux for a little while, and I wanted to share. Advantages compared to tmux:

- Detachable sessions are a separate tool from terminal multiplexing (abduco vs dvtm). I like this because sometimes I just want to be able to detach from a command but don't necessarily want the whole multiplexing deal on top of that.

- Simpler and more straightforward to use once you grok it

- Much smaller (both lines of code and binary size)
I've used TCL in production for 15 years. The only thing to really worry about is a consistent policy on language usage.
Keeping to the base features of the language and extensions in tcllib/tclx is a pretty solid recipe.

That said here are things I advise.

* No upvar/uplevel. Use a namespace.
* Use apply wisely.
* No ad-hoc (say swig inline wrappers) extensions without deep review.
* If you are writing a front end in tk - think twice.
* If you are doing OOP with TCL choose wisely.
Interesting! How do you find Mattermost does in terms of integrations with GitHub etc? I see that there seems to be a bit of a community around it, but I wonder how stable / reliable / usable they are?
My favouritely titled paper comes to mind: https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/manindra/algebra/primality_...
> one of the great ironies

If you take everything you hear on TV and read in the newspaper as true I suppose.
I love this advice. I've consumed tons of people's stories and each person took a different path. When you first start consuming this kind of stuff and noticing that, you get a little miffed, but later you come to the realization dharmon articulates here: there are tons of ways to make it work.

Make a mental note of the advice you like and try it when appropriate. Mix and match to find the cocktail that works best for you. My path is not the canonical one, but it is a path that has worked at least one time. ;-)
> Seems like a pretty hard line to draw.

All laws result in tricky distinctions, and that's what case law is for.
I don't know. But all the questions asked by OP would be applicable to any computerized system, and I doubt that a identity system designed today would operate entirely offline.
I think you're arguing past each other - magicalhippo is arguing that it's easier, willpower-wise, to eat one less slice of pizza than it is to go to the gym and run on a treadmill for 20 minutes. Either way it's less caloric surplus.
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You won't see this on Fox or MSNBC. They have commitments to fulfill, unrelated to journalism. If you like, there are some other places to look:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-g...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXwG-901yU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWAABd9CV4
VAT I get - everybody pays it, but if company imports stuff (especially local branch/official distributor), they should do import paperwork - are there any additional fees included?
Darpa is building a silicon compiler [pdf]
A corporate version of Discord, ideally on-prem, would make a lot of sense. Their current data retention policy for the public discord servers would violate many corporate data retention policies.
What qualifies a degree as an "undesirable pile of shit?" Studying English is not at all useless. It definitely provides value to our society and produces people with useful skills applicable across disciplines. Being burdened with student loans pigeon holes great minds into safe jobs that don't make use of their skills.
I read Ames's piece, and I read Reason's response here:

https://reason.com/blog/2014/07/26/did-reason-really-publish...

... both Ames and Reason link to a scan of the entire issue. I am with Reason: it's embarrassing for Reason that they ran pieces by people who would go on to become figureheads in Holocaust denial, but Ames is stretching the truth rather dramatically about the content of the actual issue.

I don't know anything about Reason and apartheid support. It wouldn't surprise me. The National Review has also been accused of supporting apartheid, and they are the house organ of mainstream conservatism.
Well, they believe they don't. My compatriots from my two home nations, Russia and China, usually defend the authoritarian policy thanks to years of soft propaganda and opinion guiding.

"Western countries have problems too, and did you see America, this is what democracy leads to."

You can see that on HN, too.
I went the other way round; dumped all JetBrains stuff and now write most things in Atom/Nuclide. At least it's not as slow with very large files as JetBrains stuff. I realized with Deep Learning work and Jupyter Notebook that I actually don't need IDE anymore...
A lot of people said $1B for Instagram was overpaying and were proven wrong.
Problem with this approach is, that it only works for fairly simple stuff. Todays webapps have pretty complex UI with a lot of ramifications and complex dependencies of widgets. Such things are much easier to build if you have a full fledged programming language (javascript) and not only a limited (turing-incomplete) templating language.

So your approach might work for simple apps, more ambitious stuff will get overly complicated.

That is imho one of the strength of mithril.js: Simple things are trivial, complicated things are pretty straight forward to solve.
Having an election manipulated by the Russian government does not count as "self-governance."
stripped the keywords out of the ads and ran them anyways

I don't see why this is particularly damning. Visit any porn tube site right now and you will notice that "teen", "stepsister", and a few other young-sounding keywords are incredibly popular. The actresses are quite obviously NOT underage.

When I worked for kink.com a decade ago, we had a policy to avoid these words because they made our credit card processors nervous. They already had a difficult enough time with fetish content. All our content was produced in-house (with meticulous 2257 records), but if we had put user-generated content on the site, we absolutely would have stripped out keywords that were too edgy.

Sex workers and pornographers habitually sell the fantasy of barely legal. Not even the customers really believe this fantasy. I wouldn't necessarily assume a suggestive ad actually represents child abuse, and editing out misleading keyword stuffing seems pretty reasonable.
Publishers are part of it but basically there's a whole economic and distribution system built around books being 200+ pages. Arguably consumers "should" be willing to pay as much for a 75 page book as a 400 page one for a given level of quality (whatever that means) but they're not. So you end up with a large class of non-fiction that pads out ideas which probably deserve something more than a 3,000 word magazine article into a 75,000-100,000 word book because that's what's required for everyone to get paid (however little). And ebooks don't really change that because very little of the cost is in physical distribution.
This shouldn't shock anyone given Chinese cultural attitudes towards honesty:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1879850/chinese-most-...
> I'm not sure why you seem afraid of Postgres

Because I've managed database applications before?

> and it's trivial to setup and run

Jenkins is more trivial. It's one process. It doesn't depend on an external high-availability networked data service. Backup is 'cp -r SRC DEST', or a plugin if you're fancy. And, again, Postgres does not replace Jenkins, it's just the storage and querying. It adds a lot of complexity and service availability points of failure that Jenkins does not have.
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The idea that this is how China works, that the President issues a dictate and a billion plus people just immediately jump to it with no questions asked, is pure racist nonsense. It gets spouted and accepted uncritically on HN because but it has no basis in reality.

In fact what's become clear in just the last five years is that the environment is a huge issue in China and the government is primarily responding to the people's demands for cleaner air etc. Polls of the population [1] have been revealing for a while that it's a primary concern, only behind corruption and price inflation. More importantly most of the environmental efforts here aren't directed by some central authority in Beijing, instead what you have are the regional municipalities like Shanghai aggressively targeting metrics much, much tougher than those imposed by Beijing.

HN's view of China is truly toxic and even on positive articles we get this sort of fantasy commentary (also see the majority of comments below) but the Chinese investment in pollution reduction is really good news and puts to shame what's happening in the US where, just today, coal regulations were wiped out. We can only hope that more countries will follow this model.

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/19/environmental-concerns-o...
If you could, then I suspect that you could do things like makes posts and GPDR the result, if you rinse and repeat you could probably reverse engineer what the algorithm is.
So the folks who got the advisor track already started getting access to tools. Anyone without the advisor track who got access?
My experience with MS Teams contradict what I've mostly seen on HN.

Coming from a Linux background, I had lost touch with the Microsoft ecosystem for the most part of a decade and would actively avoid Microsoft related stuff.

When I got a new job, I had to use the whole SharePoint/O365/Teams stack, instead of Slack, in medium-sized teams. It feels much more lightweight and responsive, chat history and search works way better than Slack (for now, at least), and is miles ahead of Skype in terms of not dropping messages, and you know, actually allowing you to chat and call.

I'm not using the O365 integration extensively, and generally view/edit documents as they're supposed to (files), but in the cases I've needed to make some changes in an Excel file, I didn't have any issues.

Of course it suffers from all the problems that an ephemeral, short-term memory chat application does in an organization, but that's to be expected.

Edit : Not affiliated with MS in any way. If I can answer any questions, let me know.
"Their claims"? I'm not saying ya didn't read the article, but you might have missed this:

"Dabo Guan, a professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia in Britain. Guan and his colleagues estimate..."
It's just telling you that it's pointless to post about issues on social media because the tool is in alpha and is obviously going to fail in many cases…
Not a noob but book marking for the cool library ideas.
> Note that the React library itself is 32kb. Just the library without any application code. The entire Elm RealWorld App is 29kb, so no amount of code splitting can make the React version smaller than the Elm version!

That's plain wrong. Code splitting doesn't work only on package level, it goes all the way down to individual module exports (ie. constants or functions). So it really depends on how well React is structured, and how well the minifier can do static and dynamic analysis.
Well, no, the current Argentine government decidedly does not admire Venezuela's model (the preceding government did admire Chavez/Maduro). Their problem is that to rein in inflation they must cut the welfare state way down, including a variety of subsidies (electric, ...). Removing those subsidies is known there as a "tarifazo", which means "massive rate increase", and has caused previous governments to fall, which is why the current government is so scared to do it.

Macri's government hopes that they can slowly adjust things rather than go the shock therapy route -- if all goes well, it could work, but both approaches are risky, and it could all end badly again either way.
I had exactly the same experience. Turns out that I am really sensitive to benzodiazepines. I now take 1/2 of a 0.25mg tablet when I know I'm going to do something that will trigger me (maybe twice a year). But a doctor initially prescribed 3mg a day (!) to me. I got physically dependent and had to wean myself off using liquid valium.
Does not exists.
To hell with it.

I want to know what SLAs I can get and the price for each.

One size fits all = crappy service for all (or higher prices for non-power users)

Delusional middle class busybodies are still trying to make the poor subsidize their Netflix and other high bandwidth habits.
A system Backpage claims to have put in place to suppress child sex trafficking was actually used to groom child sex trafficking ads (and, presumably, others) for mainstream acceptance.
For an Artificial Intelligence company no less...
> what people want

If they gave the people what they wanted then everybody (and nobody?) would be elites, right? Or maybe the majority of people just want those 10% to be rich. And since Brexit was brought up, can you think of any huge promise that was made in order to get the vote but won't be kept? Must be that what people really want is to be lied to. [1]

Today's democracy functions as a 2 step process: the campaign where people hear what they want to hear (and usually they're even told what they want) and the term where they're getting something else. Or getting what they want to a degree. You vote promises, not results.

Democracy may be the best system we have but it's far from good because while the theory is stellar, the practical application is less so.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA3XTYfzd1I
Much more wealth flows out of Africa than it receives in aid via tax evasion by MNCs, interest on debt and resource exploitation - http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2017/may/24/africa-subs.... The research made headlines last year and was reported in several international news sites.

Link to the actual report - http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/re...
It's smart to go public with this. There is established research in this area and a trove of algorithms for measuring trust. Even if it's as simple as lowering a user's trust ranking after false reports - when applied across a dataset as large as FB's it's going to be somewhat accurate.

The article goes on to suggest this is just one of a range of heuristics use to determine trustworthiness. I can imagine all kinds of profile interactions that would be be good indicators of this.
I doubt an identity system designed today would have JPEGs and plain text in a great big XML file. More likely it'd contain digital signatures of hashed documents, including structures that could verify but not reconstruct biometrics. So the blockchain (or "list," if you prefer) would be able to answer yes/no questions, but that's it.
I am with you. I was really upset as I called my young cofounder to tell her we were in. I felt she needs this way more then me and when I got a reject letter it was a huge letdown.

Anyhow, they offered good save, it will not be easy for them, and they came up with that quickly, before this blew up more.

I think they handled this way better then many CEO's handle their company firedrills.
If all you care about are plot details, maybe.

But you're missing out on a person's voice. Prose can be as beautiful as any piece of visual art in a gallery. Not only are you depriving yourself of an aesthetic experience, but also a learning experience. Reading will boost your vocabulary and help your writing and give you more cultural references to pull from (and recognize, when they come up in another's work).

But...if you can't be assed, you can't be assed, I suppose.
I'm not sure what you mean. Neoliberalism is a centrist philosophy on the U.S. political spectrum, and has been the dominant political ideology in the US and the UK for the past three decades. [0][1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17436985

[2] https://theconversation.com/what-exactly-is-neoliberalism-84...
"I know it is true because an American paper says Russian did X and Y".

I'm not saying it isn't, but WSJ and FT as sources? Really?
I'm not arguing with anyone. I agree with their comment. They are addressing the 'calorie in' part, and I the 'calorie out' part. Obviously you can't focus only on one and not the other. Limiting intake is sometimes easier, but increasing usage of calories isn't as 'hard' as going to the gym all the time (e.g. walk to work, take stairs, etc)
I laugh when I got to the "guess I'll die" image and the commenter quoting Big Shaq though. You know something's controversial when the github issues thread devolves into image macros and memes.
This reminds me of a startup that does reforestation that I first saw on Hacker News a few years ago:
https://fellowsblog.ted.com/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-real...
> Lastly, I'm not sure how MS made the connection to Russia. Did they shared some data, IP, etc. with US government to verify this? Does MS have the kind of cybersecurity forensic to independently determine the source?

It's scary how few people are asking this question, particularly on sites like HN, and I've yet to come across anyone who's explained the method by which Russian involvement can be concluded definitively. Maybe the answer is out there, but I've never come across it.
This is so typical Microsoft.
Zune, Xbox, Bing, literally 90% of what they do is a rip off of other innovators ideas.
Will that be enough to do a dark theme? :P
I don't understand why the big players such as Facebook and Google keeps insisting on using (appeals to) authority as a proxy to truth, when we have rules and systems for critical thinking.

It seems to me that if the claims and stories in question could be re-posed (e.g. as falsifiable, logically coherent statements or arguments) the worst of "fake news" could be weeded out.

The rest (and biases, etc.) would likely have to be left as an exercise for the (critical) reader.
You sound more neoliberal than libertarian.
I'm still trying to grok why ISPs are supposed to treat all customers equally while PayPal, eBay, youtube, GoDaddy, Twitter, etc. are allowed to pick and choose.

I'd be more comfortable with the arguments if people were consistent in them.
On the flipside of this backpage was an excellent resource for law enforcement to setup stings. On other services such as Humaniplex you had to have an account and you had to have safety ratings from providers to participate, that made it extremely hard for law enforcement, backpage's lack of ratings and open ended nature made it an ideal vehicle for law enforcement sex trafficking stings ironically.
It is a similar story with medical and recreational marijuana legalization.
A bigger, longer-lasting change on cutting pollution would be educating the public and encouraging appreciation for the environment. And not throwing raw garbage into rivers.
sorry dumb question (i think that answer is yes): can i use this to build a statically linked binary of my kotlin app?
I'm new to venture deals (just read the book of the same name) and I have a question:

Slack seems to be in peacetime: aggressive growth, buying things like HipChat. If they're dominating the market, why would they need to raise money?
Then ignore me :^)

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> but increasing usage of calories isn't as 'hard' as going to the gym all the time (e.g. walk to work, take stairs, etc)

Not all the time, but given some baseline of activity predicated on having a normal routine that's fairly good (ie including routine exercise like your listed examples), increasing activity further is likely to be more strenuous than lowering consumption. Or in other words, once you're past the quick wins that you can easily integrate into your day you're more likely to get results from decreasing/improving consumption.
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Yes, and it's interesting some of those states have an AG sueing for a policy the House Representatives won't support.
Ask HN: Is there a decent MD viewer on Desktop?
I've been writing all my notes in MD for most of this year, and I've been using VSCode's preview feature. However, I'd like something a little more organized. I love the format, but I'm surprised by the lack of desktop note applications that support it.
Facebook is rating its users' trustworthiness in battle against false news