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The problem with Facebook's fake-news flagging system(quod.us)
2 points by newman8r 8y ago|0 comments
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by newman8r 8y ago
I own several macs, but I run linux on all of them. It's very unlikely I'll buy macs again in the future. They've held up really well but I've moved on from Apple's ecosystem.
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Recurrent Neural Networks could combat misleading headlines(quod.us)
1 points by newman8r 8y ago|0 comments
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The media has a headline problem(quod.us)
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Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly(mercurynews.com)
181 points by newman8r 8y ago|119 comments
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Snapchat opening up APIs to developers(recode.net)
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by newman8r 8y ago
I can see why journalists might be concerned about that, but I think whatever he creates should be judged for what it is - it's possible he has good intentions.
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Does the media backlash to Musk's idea mean it's disruptive?(quod.us)
2 points by newman8r 8y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Quod – A crowdsourced fact-check site(quod.us)
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The Economics of the Classical Gold Standard(aier.org)
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by newman8r 8y ago
Interesting that you point that out, 'full self driving features' does sound pretty misleading, I kind of glazed over that headline when I saw it yesterday myself.
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Why is Elon's idea so offensive to journalists?(quod.us)
4 points by newman8r 8y ago|4 comments
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NASA Flies Large UAV in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane For First Time(nasa.gov)
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Could studying swarm behaviors teach us how to help drones fly safely?(engineering.stanford.edu)
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Verizon begins testing their 5G tech outside of the lab(verizon.com)
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Researchers find some shades of LED lamps threaten wildlife(eurekalert.org)
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Nobel Laureates Paul D. Boyer and Jens C. Skou Die at 99(cen.acs.org)
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by newman8r 8y ago
True, although I'd never seen him attacked as harshly as he has been recently. This time it was a lot more personal.
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by newman8r 8y ago
I assume most HN readers are impacted by attitudes in the media. We like to think all of our opinions are our own but it's not always the case.
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by newman8r 8y ago
Apparently Musk really pissed off the media with his talks about creating a media ratings/fact-checking site. I'm actually following it closely because I'm also working on a fact-checking project. Maybe the hate predates thi
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by newman8r 8y ago
fyi, the red juice that comes out of meat isn't blood, it's mostly myoglobin/water
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by newman8r 8y ago
It looks like the current owner has put up an ihop-looking logo and has listed the site for $50,000
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by newman8r 8y ago
Sometimes the cost of misinformation is tangible, this is sadly one of those cases. I launched https://www.quod.us as a way for people to track and catalog misinformation, and I've been following this story for the last wee
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India: WhatsApp 'child kidnap' rumours lead to lynchings(bbc.com)
2 points by newman8r 8y ago|1 comments
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by newman8r 8y ago
I do use it, I actually have over 400 feeds in my personal collection. I have to manage my settings so I don't keep anything longer than a few days. I don't think it's necessarily something most people would enjoy. I only rea
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by newman8r 8y ago
Yeah I can see how that might bog down a newcomer, that's not bad advice. You could also import the 22 feeds and delete any that seem to be posting too often for your taste. A rough estimate is that these 22 feeds would generate about
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by newman8r 8y ago
A lot of people have been interested in cnn's lite version, but unfortunately it seems like most other sites don't offer one. RSS is essentially that though, so even if you don't use an RSS reader you can bookmark the RSS ver
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Show HN: 22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list(quod.us)
83 points by newman8r 8y ago|23 comments
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by newman8r 8y ago
are people able to bring their own early-stage startups to the table or is this all from scratch? I just submitted a Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280751 and the idea of bringing a project like that to a gr
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by newman8r 8y ago
I'm trying to validate this concept, so any feedback is greatly appreciated. My goal is to create a nonprofit organization and make everything free and open source. I have a small amount of experience in NLP, specifically with NLTK. I

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