skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks that way. However, it's too early to rest on our laurels. Thank you for creating this news post by the way. :-)
From the article, quoting the profiled professor: "Persuasion is based on emotion; it is not based on logic. If everybody knew that 1 percent of the [Twitter] accounts are responsible for 30 percent of the traffic, people would be more careful thinking about that. But the vast majority of people don’t know that. Information is propagated through retweets from others who are either fooled or agree. At the end of the day, people receive some piece of misinformation, and many will not realize that it has come from one account that has been blasting messages. They will think that it came from friends."

In other words, young people who have grown up in the Internet era still need to learn about checking sources, finding information sources off the Internet, and cooling their emotions and tribal allegiances before deciding complicated issues of social policy. That's not news to anyone who reads Hacker News regularly. Every political movement and every electoral campaign for public office has a tendency to try out various persuasion strategies, empirically, seeing what works by looking at the results of campaigns. Voters who are resilient to the spreading of rumors are still the best protection for free and fair elections. One thing that helps voters become more skeptical is the back-and-forth of competing campaigns, so I'm not sure that the "social media manipulation" mentioned in the article is any more inherently dangerous than the inflammatory political cartoons of the early nineteenth century.
One of the achievements I am most proud of was doing a full year's university course in computer science in 6 weeks and passing. It was pure cramming though and very hard work. I got into a routine of full-on study from 9am-1am with short breaks every hour or so. 16 hours a day for 6 weeks.

Not something I would ever want to repeat and was first year level courses. Basically I was doing a correspondence 3 year degree while working full time. I got heavily involved in my work and decided that I wouldn't continue studying. Then with about 4 weeks to go to the 2 week final exams period I thought, what the heck let's give it a shot...

Amazing what focus and hard work can achieve!
In Lynchburg, VA (it's no San Francisco), my peers think that around $20/hour is a good rate for an internship at a fairly large insurance company. Some smaller businesses and non-profits pay around $10/hour. I've got a lot more experience and some business sense, so I charge significantly more.
Berlusconi sentenced to four years, unlikely to spend time in prison
Justify it any way you want to but MS is getting out competed in almost every area and that is just one more example. Apple gets a small sum every year form their customers and MS pisses theirs off with $140 price tags every 5 years.
Envy and Entrepreneurship
There is a limit to how much people are willing to share; this is one of the reasons we still wear clothes.
Which means you need an older Windows OS installed first, because Upgrade Assistant only runs on Windows, right?
From Wikipedia:
Minimisation is a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalisation in situations where complete denial is implausible. It is the opposite of exaggeration.
'Minimization is one of the most common ways we reduce our feelings of guilt..."It's not that big of a deal"'.
I have 2 M/S apps and 3 HRD. They are all down :(
I had a chance to hear one of the contributors to Golang give a talk about the state of the language at Google. It sounds like the team has actively shifted (for the time being) from developing the language to building things with the language. They want to get as much real-world experience as possible, to better direct the future of the language. Most of those projects are internal to Google and can't be disclosed, but the occasional project can. I don't see it as marketing, it's more of a natural byproduct of having the Go team building things with Go (right now) rather than building Go. It's an interesting strategy.
Yep, since at least Vista, I think. The UI guidelines recommend against in-app volume controls for everything except media players:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa51...
It's as if he forgets the re-use part of being green. A custom Google Chromebook ASIC will work for that and then cannot be repurposed into anything else. To add new features would mean a change of fabrication for the ASIC which is expensive and IMO insane. A tape-out is rarely done for less than $500K USD.

Whereas a more general purpose design allows someone to reuse the hardware in a different way just by changing the software. Furthermore, with a more general purpose design, you gain economies of scale and the general purpose chips become cheaper as they get produced in larger quantities and get used in a variety of hardware, not just Chromebooks (as an example). A custom ASIC would only get used in one design and have to be re-done for all others. I believe this to be much more wasteful and less 'green' than widespread use of general purpose SoC's or microprocessors.
I love Markdown, and I hate Markdown.

I love it because the world needs an easy-for-humans way to format in pure ASCII without any tool. It is much simpler than using even the most well designed GUI. You can even write books with it, and you can focus on content.

But I hate Markdown. I hate it because it is superficially good: a lot of Markdown seems to make sense at a first glance, but if you look at it more closely you see that a lot is broken in its design (IMHO the fact that the reference implementation is broken is the minor of the issues).

It is surely possible to fix it. However it's better to have a broken Markdown now that no markdown at all. The fact that Github and Stack Overflow and Reddit are using it makes it absolutely obvious how useful and great the concept is. The actual design, implementation, and specifications can be fixed now. So kudos to the original inventor, but it needs a second pass from people that can give it a more coherent shape, with clear behavior, minor surprise, and parsing in mind.
While I don't feel that I am acting entitled (I am not participating in the competition) his criticism has merit. I should not have been so dismissive, especially after posting encouraging higher quality posts recently.

I apologise for my snarkyness, but I do feel that Apple Store Credit is not much of a prize.
Before the doom and gloomers come out, this is the first time since leaving beta I can remember it happening.

We left AWS about 18 months ago after one of the outages and switched to GAE. I've counted 3-4 big downtimes for AWS compared to this one on GAE. That's still a good decision (for now)....
"In my efforts to focus on the positive and/or interesting things in my public speech, I find that I'm looking at these things more often in my private time as well. It's a rewarding exercise."

I really love that idea. Such a good point.
My co-op 10 years ago in GA paid $12/hr. Now, in SC (upstate, suburb), we pay between $22-26 for an engineering position depending on the longevity of employment. I think $35 is probably way too much for what value you will get; some experienced professionals will take that pay. If you're in NYC... maybe it's a bit more reasonable.
yes. Absolutely. This is the number one rule of writing APIs.

If you use an api of any kind, from open-source code API's, to proprietary black box HTTP api's -- you can _definitely_ tell when the api developers have a strong understanding of the use cases, and when they don't. The best way to get a strong understanding of the use cases is to write a client.

This is what "dog fooding" means.
A Facebook-Turned-BuzzFeed Ad Man Reveals His Keys To Social Success
Can anyone else verify the three-day approval time? Or, as the author suggested, was his app flagged for special treatment owing to what happened earlier?
Hm, bad week for the Cloud. Can't even get to the status page; hopefully it's not hosted on App Engine.

So going forward, what's the best way to protect against cloud downtime? Have a hot/standby failover with a different provider? Prepare customers' expectations for the possibility of server outages? Do a ton of research, pay $$$ for lots of nines uptime, and lambast the host when they don't deliver?
Monoprice to introduce high-end LED display
Yep. We've never seen anything like this before.
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome. This is what I get: http://i.imgur.com/ps7LT.png
PulseAudio does nice things: it looks at the requested volume level for each input and output, and arranges the actual controls on each intermediate stage to keep the values as high as possible without clipping, while also making use of knowledge of each mixer's stepping values to give you finer control than your hardware would give you by default :). It does rely on your sound hardware correctly reporting its actual amplification characteristics, but it seems that most hardware is pretty good nowadays, or at least consistent enough to get worked around.
Mine is also down... :( any one got any position about it ?
Then share a complete answer with your thoughts, instead of being cynical :).
That would be more constructive than posting such comments, wouldn't it ?
They want to enable small scale computers to do more powerful computations, i don't think it is directly for ipad's and chromebooks, it could be useful for something like a quadcopter where there is a algorithm that gives better stability but needs more computational power.
$97,500 for an Online Degree? 2U Is Worth It, Say Students
My mobile consumption habits have changed since purchasing an iPhone 5 with LTE. Before I didn't use a lot of data, because it was too slow to consume a lot of data. With LTE downloading a web page for me is as fast as my laptop. So I find myself using it more.
This is my point; that Amazon is a shitty business because they have chosen a terrible sector: retail. That's what you get when your main competitor is Walmart. Look at the absolute profit numbers: 1/40th the profits of Microsoft; 1/100th the annual profits of Apple; 1/30th the annual profits of Google.

That said, they are desperately trying to get into real tech. businesses.
It's closer to regular multi-core CPU computing than GPU computing. It's general purpose cores.

What sets it apart is that the cores are tiny, with little per-core memory (though all cores can transparently access each-others memory as well as main memory), and so the architecture is well suited for scaling up the number of cores with quite low power consumption.

So for problems that can be parallelized reasonably well, but with more complex data dependencies than what a GPU is good for, this might be a good fit.

I'd put it somewhere in the middle between GPU's (for embarrassingly parallel tasks) and general purpose CPU's with high throughput per core.

Also, this looks like it'd be possible to fit in the power envelope of really small embedded systems, like e.g. cellphones and tablets....

Before more developers have these systems, it'll be hard to say how useful they'll be, but the architecture looks exciting.

That's why I supported it - I really want to see how this type of architecture can be exploited, and whether or not it'll prove to be cost effective and/or simpler to work with than GPU's for the right type of problems.
I'm guessing you haven't been a sysadmin at any midsize to large corporation...
>When people trade, they all become richer.

It depends on what's being traded and who's trading. Someone buying meth is engaging in trade, but it not necessarily ending up "richer".

Generalizing that the "market is good" is as much of a mistake as generalizing that "the market is bad". There are lots of ways markets can be gamed and corrupted that, in the end, make the market difficult to distinguish from corrupt/incompetent central planning.

Water is essential to life. If a country's politicians get bribed and broker the sale of a country's water in exchange for some currency they can potentially exchange the long-term health of the country they are stewarding for personal gain.
Typical multicore CPUs don't have nearly as many cores as Parallella. Also, from what I can from www.apteva.com/introduction, the power consumption is much lower and the interconnect is different. In Parallella, cores are laid out in a grid and cores can only talk directly to their neighbors.
I don't give a rat's ass about social media manipulation. What I care about is voting machine manipulation.
if my opinion of the states was formed by the loudest voices in this year's elections, I'd think the US was a Christian version of the Islamic Republic.
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Build redundancy into your software to deal with single provider failure.
> we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform

> FAQ: Will you open source the Epiphany chips?
> Not initially, but it may be considered in the future.

Well, that makes it a lot less interesting than I hoped it would be.
Why does everyone pretend GCCGO doesn't exist in these conversations? An alternative implementation already exists, and has existed since very early on. If nothing else, it demonstrates that re-implementation is a feasible option, should that ever become necessary. (I don't see why it should, since the official is BSD licensed.)
Just because Googlers can't publicly speak about using Go for serious shit doesn't mean they aren't.

> Google uses Go for many internal projects, but for confidentiality reasons it's rare that we can point to a specific example
From the link, it appears that to get 'lower' volume, you scale the output values if digital, whereas you may scale the output signal if analogue. If you have an analogue output (stereo jack), then you probably generate a lower-power output and therefore save energy by turning the volume down. If you use digital out, then the volume of your local device doesn't have any bearing on the battery life of that device, because you are effectively putting out numbers. But I could be wrong!
I look forward to the social experiment.

Assume these cameras that takes photos every X seconds (probably checking e.g. pulse/blood pressure to increase/decrease X or going into video mode).

Personal violence will be hard to get away with, for instance. People acting bad will end up on Youtube much more (combine that with face recognition). And so on.

Personally, from future hardware I want a better HUD combined with good chording keyboard -- to run Emacs from the beach.
On Linux (specifically Ubuntu, but I believe generally relevant) PulseAudio controls the volume of the loudest sound by default, but you can also get a panel showing each input and output from the volume menu -- two or three clicks, vs. two for Windows.
> Even once Steam is on Linux, most games won't be.

While that's true, it'll lead to the creation of more games for Linux, particularly with a lot of people apprehensive about the big GUI changes in Windows 8.

More importantly, 90% of my "regular" gaming takes place in Source-based engines (TF2/L4D2), so I would be more than happy as long as those Source games are available on Linux (and I believe that was Valve's plan all along with Steam for Linux).
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So how exactly do we know that the political failure modes, in this case, would be worse than the market failure modes? Last I checked, formalized, real existing markets are extremely vulnerable to political manipulation by both public and private actors/participants (using the public actors as proxies).

So we trade in political volatility for political volatility plus market volatility (positive, though perhaps small)? That doesn't sound like a good deal to me...

In addition, how on earth are you going to make water fully private? If I look up and open my mouth when it's raining will the police bludgeon me? What about if i set a bucket outside (some municipalities already punish this, actually)? Will a representative of Goldman Sachs insist on weighing me before and after I go rafting, lest I take more water than I paid for home in my stomach and soaking wet clothes?

I'm not being (entirely) hyperbolic here, look at intellectual "property" as an example. It isn't a perfect fit, of course, since water is finite. However, the blunt-instrument style enforcement is, I suspect, an excellent model for what would happen if water were to be made 100% private property.

How many people have been sued for minor infractions? How many times has the government drastically overstepped its authority to enforce IP laws? How many lawyers have grossly abused the court system to enrich themselves on the backs of innovative companies that accidentally violated vague patents?

These things happen partly because IP laws are really, really hard to enforce adequately and evenly. I see no reason why enforcement of water "ownership" would end up any differently.
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I don't want to have to go through anybody to be able to get my app to my customers.

This tendency towards closed-off app stores is really depressing.
When I was first learning how to code, I was afraid to ask questions in the developer community, for fear that I would be ridiculed as stupid. For some reason I felt like I was bothering or interrupting if I asked a developer a question. Maybe it was some of the people I was around, but a lot of developers are very opinionated and strongly believe that certain things should be a certain way. I think because developers have to defend their way of thinking all the time. They can become guarded and if their ideas are supported, they can develop a sense of pride to a point where they consider others around them incapable. I think some of the grumpiness stems from that. Some developers think they're better than others and everyone else wastes their time.
So let's say an app erases your hard drive if you use it the wrong way, but it is easy to fix with a registry tweak anyone can do. Should we really only drop a personal note to the author instead of warning everyone it sux0rs and having a discussion in public where people can become aware of the problem and work around?

Pointing out problems with things is one of the most useful parts of communicating with others, and this article advocates not allowing it most of the time. Would you read a publication's movie or restaurant reviews if the reviews only ever said good things about the movies? I sure as hell wouldn't, I'd look for one that gave the whole picture.
"Uh oh, another story about success in Go, better post some FUD!" Nobody's yet come in to say how using Go on a 10-year-obsolete computer (32-bit PC) may have problems with garbage collection, pretty unusual for a Go post.
Internal projects aren't serious shit.
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~20% of the votes will go through machines. Both Diebold[1] and Tagg Romney own a huge number of the machines, specifically in important states like Ohio.

The US elections have been rigged for at least 12 years. This much is obvious. They will be rigged this year, too. But to what extent?

[1] Or whatever they call themselves now.
This is one of these questions i wondered about for decades, but never looked it up.
Yes I came here also to add a +1 to ensuring that whatever standards discussions would include Pandoc and it's awesome implementation and converter.

From the link, scroll down to 'Pandoc’s Markdown' about a third of the way down the page for all the details.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
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Java is not making a comeback. I searched real hard remote JEE6/Play friendly startups, and now I'm learning Ror (interesting framework, I love gems) to adapt to the market.
Oops, our custom chip has a huge security bug. Never fear, we'll distribute a firmware update... Oh wait, we baked our algorithm into hardware. Looks like you'd better junk the device and buy version 1.1, the "doesn't give your credit card to the Mafia" release.
Getting over 5GB on one SIM card at decent speeds seems to be almost impossible. Having rung around a lot on this, most UK networks say they'll only do it for video advertising boards next to motorways and such.
For Reddit, I would use the new parser for comments written after the upgrade and the old parser for comments written before the upgrade. Note that Reddit already puts post that are older then a month or so into a "frozen" archive mode where they can not be further modified, so after a month the old parser could be thrown away completely.

Not sure what to do about Github.
It's not iron-clad proof that the contents of the article are truthful.

However, if the contents were not truthful, I think you would also expect the Chinese government to forcefully deny them. There is no mention of a denial in the referenced Times article...at least as of yet.

Therefore, I think the blocking of the Times can be taken as a reasonable indicator that the Chinese government wants to hide embarrassing information.

Is that really such a stretch?
The best answer neglects to address something I've noticed in the past: Many phones and portable media players seem to clip when you set their volume to maximum -- that is to say, what reads as "100%" sounds more like "120%". I haven't measured this effect, and I've never seen it documented anywhere, so I don't know whether or not it's just my imagination -- but I've personally observed it with pretty much every phone I've owned.

On the PC, though, I rarely set my system volume to anything other than 100%.
Autocomplete for "why steve jobs was a" gives "Jerk" as first result. Doesn't matter what the world perceives us. There is too little time to keep up with all the shit in the world. If one line email replies, coming to the point in a hour long meeting and ending it in 5 minutes is perceived by the rest as grumpiness, then let's be grumpy. And who says great developers don't have fun. They just don't mix it with work, so you don't get to know.
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That is not always a feasible option, specially for young projects with limited capital.
Part of the reason I don't even use storyboards is because of its lack of good UIView manipulation. I do a lot of things in container views and scrollviews that add UIViews as subviews. For the type of UI I'm looking for, storyboarding really doesn't cut it.
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For that reason it's the one sort-of-part of China I'd actually like to visit one day soon - me and a lot of others I think.
Vs Xeon Phi: Cost, complexity, power. Look at pictures of the Xeon Phi cards. They're covered in heat sink, and with a fan. For comparison, the Epiphany chips are a single tiny die with no cooling. But of course the per-core performance is not likely to be anywhere near Xeon Phi either.

I'd consider Epiphany the simple, "slow" (per core), low power solution, with Tilera somewhere in the middle, and Xeon Phi at the other extreme (complex, fast per core, high power usage).

That said, this is speculation based on reading articles - I've not had my hand on any of the three. Yet :)
For the last 30 years, we made voting decisions based on 30 second messages. That has worked so well, it's time to shorten those messages to 140 characters. Because apparently less information is more in politics.
How can you possibly know that categorically? Internal in this case really only means "doesn't talk about it publicly".
That's a pretty broad brush and in my case, completely untrue. Go has a lot more than static typing, particularly nice concurrency support and solid libraries even for things like image handling (no need to build PIL).
I'm really happy I don't host in the cloud. How quickly are the cost savings of cloud computing obliterated by PR, customer service, and system administration time when an outage like this occurs?
Pavucontrol well also let you assign apps per device. Windows has the capability of switching app output devices but sadly only uses it to make them follow the default.