skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but State Department has Classnet for classified materials, this is not a case of Clinton plugging into Classnet with a private server.

The fact that other people sent information to her Opennet email address that contained information derived from classified documents is not necessarily damning for Clinton. If someone from DoD or any of the intelligence agencies pulled information from a classified document and sent it to a public email address, that spillage would be on the sender.

If Clinton realized that classified info came into her inbox then she would be responsible for getting that information off an unclassified machine. But if someone pasted an excerpt from a classified source into an unclassified email, the recipient of that email may not know that it was in fact classified information. Certain types of information should ring alarm bells for the recipient, but the classification of other types of information are not always going to be apparent if the information is not marked (secret, top secret, sbu, etc).

To date there doesn't seem to be anyone claiming there was intentional spillage on Clinton's part, or that she personally took classified information and put it on an unclassified system. There may yet be more revealed but right now it doesn't look like she did anything meriting prosecution.
That's an amazing feature/bug!
There are compounding effects with economic progress as well that are effectively immeasurable due to complexity. The availability heuristic biases people to think that obviously identifiable benefits are more important than pursuits with less identifiable benefits.
>Supposedly she got the server set up because the NSA refused to give a politician who travels frequently a secure smartphone.

She didn't want the one they offered her, which was an older-style Windows Mobile phone. As the emails frequently note, she is not a "computer person", she knew how to work one kind of device for accessing email and refused to use anything different. They offered her a secure computer with a dedicated outside line even inside State, but her handlers thought she wouldn't even be able to deal with the concept of accessing her email on a PC rather than a Blackberry. I am not bashing Clinton here, I am just reading back the stuff from the emails that was on JudicialWatch.

What's "depressing" to me is that I have had to handle classified material in the past and there's zero doubt what would happen to me if I handled this shit like her and her staff did, but there's going to be zero material consequences for her. I kind of feel like there's two sets of law books, ones for peons like me, and ones for special people like her.
How many articles have had the premise "You can't trust wikipedia, because it's full of lies! Why, just look at this handful of lies I've put on there!"
But who on Earth is so fond of CO2? right, plants via photosyntesis.

So why not sending green algae on Venus to harvest that CO2? When the temp drops, send something else, like trees.

Quite SF, but would worth a calculation.
I never said that.

Not performance, ergonomics. `array[5]` and `array.get(5).unwrap()` do the same thing (with a different panic message) and have the same performance when optimized (since it should inline). It would be annoying to have to handle the error every time you index, and would kind of ruin the syntactic sugar of indexing. Thus, indexing panics, and you have `.get()` if you want to not panic and use monadic errors (but as you can see, you can make `.get()` panic too by unwrapping it).

The same goes for other panicky APIs, they're panicky because 99% of the time you don't want to deal with that error since it's an "unexpected" one which means something went horribly wrong and there's no sane way to continue. For the 1% of the time you do need to deal with that error, you can use the alternate Result/Option-based API.
The FBI putting the Cyber in Cyber. I know we all feel safer with them on the watch
No. It's more like he was swinging a foam bat and is warning us how easy it would be for someone more malicious to swing a spiked bat.

Seriously, I don't really care if some teenager creates a non-sense fanfic world on poorly monitored sites.

However, it is noteworthy how the utter lack of quality control on so many Internet properties can propagate falsehoods.

This undermines the claim that the Internet was supposed to be this "Information Superhighway" (lol, remember that term?) leading to a more informed society.

This just hasn't panned out the way the tech utopians of the 90s thought it would. What they failed to foresee is that the abundance of information can lead to just as much ignorance as the lack of information.
I only recently tinkered with wordpress/buddypress plugins for a hobby site. I can see why it became so popular. It's dead easy to start tinkering because it forces you to learn very little. Just find the place where you want to hook your code, and dump tons of godawful code in there. That means that people use 1000 different styles in their plugins, but its the big price to pay. In comparison, try tinkering with oxwall without digging deep into their object-oriented code.
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Why? What's wrong with it? It's a real word (i.e. it's in Merriam-Webster).
The barbell piercing that it anchors to is permanent, but I think the device itself has to be removed to charge.
I am working on a newsletter for frontend developers and plan to monetize it with sponsorships and job listings. I can't keep up with all the news out there related to frontend development and thought others might be interested.

It will not be 100% passive but since I am already reading those articles anyway, adding them to a weekly newsletter should be relatively passive. If things workout as planed then best case scenario, it should generate me $2000/month.

The first issue comes out June 1st at http://frontend.curated.co

PS: If you have tips on promoting this and getting the word out let me know. I am running some targetted twitter ads for now and got a good amount of subscribers. My goal is to get it to 5000 subscribers very quickly.
I created a version of this that is built into a hat:

https://pganssle.github.io/HaptiCap/

Haven't had much time since then to update the instructions on how to build it or make significant improvements, but I personally thought the hat form factor was better than the anklet or belt. Even in my prototype version it's pretty hard to tell it's anything other than a normal hat.
Micheal Kitces <https://www.kitces.com> writes about technology for financial advisors.
I see what you're getting at. I'm reminded of the discussion and debate around the Rosenhan experiment[0].

That said, I think your analogy isn't quite on point. The noteworthy thing here isn't just that it's possible to lie on the internet -- people have clearly been doing that for a while. What's interesting here is that those lies, while not at the time intended as an experiment, have still demonstrated how perniciously they can become a part of what is becoming our collective memory and record of truth.

We already know that our memories are malleable, fuzzy, adaptive, and often downright wrong. It's interesting to see how this relates to the possibility that lies, or untruths, take on a life of their own online, and can serve to mold our own recollections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
and when google/apple/facebook buys your service and shuts your service down, where does this logic leave your customers?

these heuristics are completely invalid in today's economy. sure they sound intuitive, but they're not.

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

in fact i could make a reasonable case that having brand name funding means you're more likely to NOT be around in 3 years
You know this how?
I'm only 27, but I think this is a case of great people have great salaries. It's that simple. Do partners at McKinsey or MDs at GS make a shitload of money? yes. But they were good enough to make the cut time and again to be promoted above their peer group. Plenty of rockstar individual contributors are paid above average, because they've demonstrated a disproportionately high value add to the organization.
As long as changes and 'upgrades' correlate with net gains for investors and shareholders, it's all good. It's all that matters. We are faced with faceless super-agents, we can't realistically complain to anyone, nobody is responsible. I hope the era of user empowerment comes soon, and this kind of mammoth-sized digital stomping over humans ends.
I'm not justifying the law I consider it ridiculous but I'm pretty sure that is how it is written.
If you talk to bots, you're talking to their bosses
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The article explicitly covered that point. MS used to say the same thing.

As an iOS user, it's still jarring as hell to have a native app feel like something from other OS. I don't want to learn another platform's conventions to use my own platform.

On Android it makes sense, they make android. On the web it's OK because websites all look different. But all iOS apps generally work the same and when you stand out it's annoying.

You know all those people who complain about Java applications not feeling right? Yeah, same kind of thing. As a long time Mac user you can tell when the program you're using is a lazy port from Windows because it doesn't fit in.
>It favors Google Finance and Youtube over its rivals in search results page.

Finance is integrated with specific financial queries, so searching "goog" will show stock history and similar. This is different from the actual search results however. It's similar to special queries for translations, definitions, conversions, and so on.

I can understand this being criticized, but I don't think it's an abuse of power in any way.

As for Youtube, that's just an extremely popular website. It ranks highly organically because it has tens of thousands of links coming in all the time. There's also always fresh content to index which Google ranks favorably. The site has every expectation of ranking highly. So I don't buy that one without some evidence.
In my opinion, this prank is very intricate and took a lot of effort while not actually proving the point that "history is meaningless on the internet" because the subject matter - the Street Sharks - are/were essentially forgotten by history itself. Sometimes things just naturally slide away and nobody cares. It's like, "What year did the black Power Ranger turn good?" or "What was the top selling Rock band in the years 1975-1983?" and then making up an answer because, well, it's not really pertinent stuff. There are much better cons online, I like to think...edit...even if this is some kind of meta-joke where it turns out all the fake parts are being faked...sigh...
Another lesson not to trust people/organizations ignorant enough to keep confidential data in plain text on anonymous FTP.

It seems that the 21st century responsible disclosure procedure goes like that:

0. use tor for the research itself

1. report problems anonymously

2. if they don't care - report them to law enforcement for breach of confidentiality

3. if these don't care either or don't accept anonymous tips - make noise in the media

Of course, this is for dealing with idiots who keep their data on public FTP. If the attack takes some clever hacking, go check if they don't offer bug bounties. Funny times we are living in.
That typically refers to cycling water underground and using it to immerse one side of a heat exchanger, does it not?

I am wondering why cycling air directly with no heat pump isn't used more often.
Maybe I'm not ahead of the curve enough. Still though, every 6 months? Did you start using Grunt only 6 months before running into this issue?

Maybe I'm reading this too literally, but personally I'm totally cool with using a tool for 2 years and then transitioning to another. 2 years is already a lot of good value.
But this whole thread is about Mars becoming warmer on its own because it's exiting an ice age. That's the chicken to your egg right there.
Worth considering when reading that article... http://theweek.com/articles/449646/why-expensive-build-bridg...
> Patents are a different matter. ... patents might be useful in fields where the cost of R&D really is prohibitively high without some reliable way to exploit any successful projects

You seem to be suggesting that cost should be a deciding factor in whether to protect creative work. I disagree that there is a difference here between copyrights and patents.

1) In the tech industry, calculating the "cost" would be anything but straightforward. What would be allowed and what wouldn't? The players are not even comparable - what would stop a large corporation to include their HR, legal departments, and executive team as part of their "R&D costs"? Whereas, a small software startup with 1-3 members getting paid ramen noodles would be hard pressed to properly chalk up a tiny fraction of the costs the large corporation. The large corporation would have no problem showing that "project X cost $1million+ in R&D costs" while the startup would be in $thousands or $tens of thousands. If anything, one might argue that the OPPOSITE of cost would be better indicator - I see more innovation deserving protection from small startups creating things in a weekend than large corporations pushing some new technology developed over years using teams of people and resources.

2) There exist numerous examples where traditional artists create works in relatively short time. How many times have we read about an artist who wrote a song in an afternoon or even an hour? In those cases, the "R&D" costs of creating the song or painting would surely be considered small (if not tiny) when compared to tech R&D. It's contradictory to suggest that creative works protectable by copyrights at times with lower "costs" should be more protectable than tech protectable only by patents.
> electromagnetic feelings

What do you mean by this? And also, I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out the lack of a link between correlation and causation.
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To be fair, the device she was offered doesn't look that bad. It even comes with a blackberry style keyboard.
Yeah, it is probably possible to recover, but it just doesn't make sense to spend the kind of time it would take to be sure.
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It's jarring, because basically EVERY OTHER iOS APP behaves similarly.

If you spend all your time on Android and the Web, an for some reason occasionally use a Google app on an iPhone it may feel familiar to you.

But if you have an iPhone chances are you spend a lot of time using other iOS apps (including the system ones) and are used to that design language.

It's nice that it's consistent with other Google products, the problem is that's the wrong thing to do on iOS because it feels so out of place. You can still use your colors and many of your other schemes, but basic platform conventions like share buttons and menu locations should be respected.
think about how much worse it was before the internet
yes. She is not my grandma, very close family friend. Her son is my fathers very good friend. I edited above, but there is a folder called [ his name ] which was on desktop. she can't recall if it is usually there but had full credit report and also several job apps, sales agreements, and other fin data. he now runs branch of a financial firm, so he is concerned. Some files were in formats I didn't have ability to read(not nefarious just some older microsoft format or something) and I didn't want to go his full private data, but needless to say, I personally would be super uncomfortable if I knew they took this data, if it was my data, i would be concerned.

edit: also, thanks for the compassion, cheers. ;)
I disagree. The race to the bottom you observe with PCs is largely caused by the same lock-in forces enabled by strong copyright.

In your hypothetical example world, Linux would be on equal playing field when it comes to video/hardware drivers. So it could compete as a serious gaming platform. Without vendor lock-in, hardware would have to be more interchangeable, so can select their own choice of hardware, which can be cheap or expensive or powerful or quality or pretty etc and fit it inside an aluminium casing if they like. They could get a matte screen and a nice keyboard ...

Without Apple's market power behind it, nobody would consider using iTunes over a normal mp3 player.

There is demand for pretty computers, powerful ones, durable & sturdy ones, et cetera. That won't change without Apple. Sure it won't offer the exact same things Apple does today, but on the other hand it will provide a whole bunch of things that Apple today doesn't or won't. On the whole it will be neutral or positive.
How come there is no legislation that limits what software corporations are allowed to do? Just imagine if regular companies that deal with physical stuff were allowed to do the same. It's like if they broke into your house to replace or 'upgrade' your stuff without your consent. Companies can literally break into people's homes and change stuff.
Oh I didn't notice the wikipedia thing was actually sourced. I think that pretty much settles it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080530073139/http://java.sun.co...
Gotta 2nd NoScript for blocking all detritus from wasting my data caps & cpu cycles, although the default white-list needs much purging out of the box.

For added goodness, I also run the Blender Add-On[1] for the sites I do allow on occasion. I value my privacy <b>MORE</b> than the marketeers do.

[1]https://github.com/meh/blender
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The house would be the opposite of a fresh start, and would likely hand it to Trump (or whatever right-leaning 'independent' might happen to show up).
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Gotta jump on this opportunity. This specific app is designed to help a person explore his/her own mind through meditation. My belief is that more people should look within before looking externally (which is, as you say, "human interaction") to improve themselves and the world around them. The fundamental flaw in positioning "human interaction to promulgate happiness" is that you attach your happiness to things outside yourself. I say start with yourself and go from there.

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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To those who are questioning how much truth the 'confession' has in it, you are definitely getting in the spirit of things.

The confession is sort of a buzzfeed-ish version of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, and he digs in, at length musing on lies and truth and how they mush together in ways that are very hard to untangle.

At any rate, if you liked the essay, I recommend the book.
I've always felt like people who were buying Office for Mac probably cared more about having a consistent experience than having a Mac-like one and they probably should have hewed more closely to the Windows look and feel. It's like emacs -- how many people choose to use Aquamacs or something instead of just the traditional one?
Look up at the top of this comment page. Under the headline is a "web" link, which does a search of the article for you. In this case the very first one is to the WSJ article, and it's not paywalled. I'll also note that when I manually try the google search workaround it no longer works for me, but this did.
considering 'new-earthers' and 'flat-earthers' are making a comeback, along with religious extremism taking over (in terms of laws vs traditions) I'd say the next dark-ages are right around the corner...
It was originally a bug, but then I upgraded it to a feature. :-)

There is also fly mode, see buttons on the right.
> I will personally call this scientist up and lecture him/her on the merits of doing science scientifically.

Feynman did in 1974: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

In light of these things, my working hypothesis is scientists can dogmatically claim things too.
I switched due to the SOCKS support in curl. For either one, if you use Firefox the cliget addon is quite handy :).

https://github.com/zaidka/cliget
Deco homepage does not start an automatic download: https://www.decosoftware.com/
This is in addition to normal pay, you understand that right? Your comments about equity can be applied to anyone working for any startup, so what's your point?

I did some work for gigster a few months ago just to try it out. It was a breath of fresh air compared to upwork/elance/etc. Average pay for engineers was around $100/hr.
A while back, I forget who, but someone tracked down some false facts that were supported by circular references in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia doesn't allow you to cite Wikipedia, of course, but the trickster added an unsupported, false fact to Wikipedia, which was quoted by someone's blog, which was quoted in an article by a "science" "journalist", and then the trickster updated the Wikipedia page to reference that article.

I think it's important to take note that this can happen instead of dismissing it as childish pranks. We should apply the "security mindset" to our sources of information, not just to our computation.
Conjecture:

There is no such thing as "non-ionizing" radiation. There is just a continuum that ranges from "barely a chance for this to ionize a molecule" to "this will ionize something in the first nanometer". I mean, what's the point of understanding EMR as a continuum of wavelength, if we're going to create arbitrary distinctions therein and presume to know everything about those distinctions.

Another way to think about this is with an analogy: "non-lethal weapons"... but then see https://mic.com/articles/123410/nonlethal-weapons-are-much-m.... It would seem smarter to start thinking about things as "less" and "more" of something, rather than "non".

If you find some wavelength in the middle that seems to be safe, perhaps it is safe in the near term, but when put in terms of "less ionizing than we can notice" it doesn't sound like something I want to hold next to my brain for the next 15 years.

Also note, it's already known that Bluetooth and WiFi cause the blood brain barrier to become 10-100x more biologically leaky[1], letting more chemicals into your brain.

Edit: apparently, this Bluetooth / WiFi point is moot.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8012056
thanks. This was my concern. I have mitigated short term risk (next 2 weeks ish) so I am just trying to assess whether it is worth freaking her out and dumping the whole system. i already did but as an 80 y/o she didn't adjsut super well to having hackers breach her PC, have all new passwords for her stuff, and trying to use a new OS. So i removed the HD with windows 10, and put the old original HD back in with win7. wanted to know how serious others thought risk was before I escalated.
Back in the early days of the IMDB, and before they got strict with verification, my brother uploaded information and credits for his high school movie assignments, which I had 'acted' in.

A Google search for my real name still returns my IMDB actors page as one of the top links.
Good point about Rickman. I guess visually I just imagined Marvin to be this moping, hunched, depressed C-3PO kind of figure. He was such a funny character in the book!