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saltvedton Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

Norsk Tipping has recently gotten fines (46MNok and 36MNok) from the gaming authorities for other issues:

https://www.vg.no/sport/i/KMAxP4/varsler-gigantbot-til-norsk...

https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/norsk-tipping-far-bot-pa-36-mil...

saltvedton Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?

https://leanpub.com/leprechauns

saltvedton Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News

I'm solving a very related problem with https://cited.news/

It's a news aggregator based on Wikipedia references.

saltvedton Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed

I've created a news aggregator based on Wikipedia references. While this might be comparing apples to oranges, here's the list of the most cited websites by Wikipedia: https://cited.news/domains

It's still a bit buggy, so the "blank" domain is ranked #1, followed by NY Times, BBC and The Guardian.

Fox News is ranked at #93 at that list: https://cited.news/domains/show/www.foxnews.com/citations

saltvedton Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

I tried adding it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&type=rev...

The article is dated on 14. of March though, so it should not appear on the front page but here: https://cited.news/wikipedia_pages/date/2019-03-14

saltvedton Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

My project, the news aggregater Cited News (https://cited.news/), uses Wikipedia references as source for news.

saltvedton Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings

There is a very similar case going on in Norway, where Håkon Wium Lie (creator of CSS) is being sued: https://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/06-11-blog.html

saltvedton Child abuse images hidden in crypto-currency block chain

"The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula) is a spigot algorithm for computing the nth binary digit of the mathematical constant π using base-16 representation. The formula can directly calculate the value of any given digit of π without calculating the preceding digits. (...) Though the BBP formula can directly calculate the value of any given digit of π with less computational effort than formulas that must calculate all intervening digits, BBP remains linearithmic (O(n log n)), whereby successively larger values of n require increasingly more time to calculate; that is, the "further out" a digit is, the longer it takes BBP to calculate it, just like the standard π-computing algorithms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...

saltvedton Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw

The Norwegian equivalent of this project, got sued for copyright infringement of supreme court verdicts: http://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/10-22-returns

saltvedton Traveling Ruby: self-contained, portable Ruby binaries

JRuby (Ruby on JVM) and Warbler[0] solves this problem quite nicely, even though you end up with JARs instead of true binaries. (There are tools for packaging JARs as binaries, if you really want that.)

[0]https://github.com/jruby/warbler

saltvedton Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

def anagram?(a,b) a.reverse == b end

saltvedton Ask HN: Book that is completely opposite of how you think as a software dev?

Not that I've actually read the book myself, but Being and Time by Heidegger seems to fit your description.

Reading it will feel like running into a brick wall, so I suggest reading about Heidegger for context first: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/

Reading the article above might still feel like running into a wall though (perhaps one of wood, this time). You might want to have a listen to an episode on Heidegger by Philosophize This!: http://philosophizethis.org/episode-100-transcript/

saltvedton Ask HN: Best way/resources to learn Excel?

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

saltvedton Ask HN: YC W2018 invites/rejections?

My news aggregator based on Wikipedia references was rejected. http://cited.news

saltvedton Norway tightens IT security to prevent ballot tampering

The machines used to count votes were Windows machines connected to the internet.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/teller-opp-stemmer-i-valget-pa-data...

saltvedton Did James Damore really deserve to be fired for what he wrote?

This is written by the somewhat famous moral philosopher Peter Singer[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

saltvedton Future of Fake News [video]

Radiolab has an episode of the potential implications of tech like this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/

saltvedton Ask HN: What are some online multiplayer game like agar.io and curveferver

Slither.io

saltvedton Ask HN: What makes a good Vlog?

Nerdwriter has a good video about Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiJqTBCQuw

saltvedton Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

This more than anything. I believe it is this issue (at least for me): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrade...

saltvedton Nintendo Switch review: pure potential

You forgot the quirkiest thing of all, the Nintendo Power Glove [0] released in 1989.

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

saltvedton #define CTO OpenAI

The potential upshot is democratization of AI technologoy.

saltvedton Ask HN: How to learn Spanish quickly and effectively?

Try Pimsleur, Memrise and the book Fluent in 3 months.

http://www.pimsleur.com/learn-spanish-latin-american

https://www.memrise.com/

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

saltvedton Ask HN: What is the best low-risk, passive way to invest 150,000 euros?

We have index funds in Europe...

saltvedton Why I Left White Nationalism

No, it's a real problem, examples of the lefts "special brand of science denialism":

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687863?jour...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/should-rese...

saltvedton Ruby 2.3.3 released

Good article explaining complexity of refinements in Ruby: http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html

saltvedton Show HN: Best Hacker News stories, sorted by score to comment ratio

I was surprised yesterday, by the high number of upvotes but lack of comments on "Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003281

So I made this; make of it what you want.

saltvedton Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow

Can anyone give more examples of specific problems this could solve?

saltvedton Britain is sailing into a storm with no one at the wheel

Renowned British historian Timothy Garton Ash[1] wrote a very good comment in The Guardian, which takes a step back and considers some of the larger picture:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016/jun/2...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Garton_Ash

saltvedton Ask HN: Looking for a Book on Cellular Automata

This is a good introduction: http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-7-cellular-automata/