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I think that's a bit quick to accuse someone of conspiracy theories.

At the moment, Seth Rich's death consists of a nighttime shooting, no killer caught, and nothing stolen. Police are treating it as a "presumed attempted robbery". If some local criminal is found with the murder weapon and no alibi, I think that would satisfy a lot of people that it was a robbery gone wrong.

Yes, there will be conspiracy theorists, but we're not really at "impossible to disprove" yet. There's still plenty of room for ordinary discussion - it's still an open investigation to the police even. I don't believe the 'revenge' story at all, but I don't think people are crazy for asking "Hey, what was Rich's DNC job? And is there evidence for the robbery story?"
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Yes, being cooped up in an embassy for years while state actors hold phony charges against you threatening your arrest must be for the thrill of it.
With you, I own an x220 and a x200t that has been running as a server for more than 2 years non stop.

I'm in love with the magnesium industrial construction and as you mention the keyboard.

In fact the keyboard is the thing that would prevent me from upgrading to a newer thinkpad.

As for opening and maintaining the elitebook 2560 with it tool-less chassis is an option as well as possessing the eraser head option and good keyboard.
I love the idea of the device, but I have doubts about international shipping costs. It's hard for me to imagine buying a product, 50% price of which is shipping costs :/
Flash community was great. It was a real pleasure to work with visual artists and musicians. There will never be anything like it in web development.
Information should be free the twist is that Wikileaks is brokering what is free and what is not...which is supposedly what they were working against. Assange (much like Greenwald) were not as true to the ideals that they set forth to the world and they are no better then the causes they were supposedly against. Reports are worse then Wikileaks they have no protection from Gov and worse they have no actual knowledge in the advanced areas but think they can make decisions that affect the dissemination of that information based on faulty reasoning.
The DNC also has in its charter that they must work to get Democratic candidates elected and work towards getting the ideals of the Democratic Party implemented.

Sanders didn't lose because the DNC said mean things in their internal email system. He likely lost because he never made much of a dent in the heavily black Democratic voting population in the South.
You both appear to be forgetting something much more important.

Information was passed to trusted reporters because they were the only ones who had access and the ability to publish in a newspaper so that many people could be informed at once.

This is no longer exclusively the purview of newspaper/television reporters.
I get much better performance from AMD's open source driver than from their closed-source driver. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with a version of the 4.4 kernel that has the 4.5 driver changes backported.
Hence the caveat: conduct yourself accordingly.

Just because you don't use specifications doesn't make you a bad programmer but you must be aware of your own short-comings and plan for them. If you're not allowed to use specifications you're being told you're not allowed to think. If that's the case you know there are going to be errors produced by the team either in the design itself or in the implementation.
I'm not sure an organization as biased as Fox News would improve the credibility of the leaks by any measurable amount.
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Declassifying stuff is never cheap you can't be "liberal" unless you insist on being careless.

When you declassify a document you need to go over every word, check if it related to any source or material that cannot be declassified or ad hoc declassify additional material (which is why many times when there is a FOIA request for a document you can get more than what you ask for) go over every codeword and dig up everything that relates to that and run the same process on that material
also.
After that once you accepted the declassification you go on a hunt and collect all copies and revisions to ensure that there are no copies other than the final "declassified" one.

Declassifying documents is like pulling a string on a sweater you start pulling it and if end up unraveling the entire thing this is why the often redact whole paragraphs and even pages since the effort is too great and you don't want to risk leaving breadcrumbs.
Counter intelligence and OSINT agencies often practice on investigating declassified material and to see if they can gain any "unintended" intelligence from it and often they do and the declassification procedures are updated.

Governments need some level of secrecy to run, the level is dependant on the department and the subject but it secrecy is important none the less, people often don't realize just how many things can easily be screwed up by a tiny leak.
No, it has nothing to do with the fact that the DNC is corrupt and willing to kill people to rig elections.

That's not the problem here.

The problem is that attention has been brought to this murder which highlights the corruption.

We can't let anyone know that the DNC is corrupt!
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> implying the DNC staffer that died was murdered.

The DNC staffer that died _was murdered_. That's exactly what happened. I think what you mean is they're implying motive and conspiracy.

A $20k reward might clear the air either way.
I recently swapped the mainboard of my T420, it was quite easy to do with just a screwdriver (and the maintenance manual and some thermal grease). Extended this five year old machine's life by another year or so for ~50€. It was very easy to do with the manual. I'm not sure how much harder it is with the newer models, but maybe a ThinkPad meets your requirements better than a MacBook?
Yes, yes NIST has many recommendations, and technically SMS is insecure.

That said, many websites use a Twilio two-factor integration and don't support anything else. If that's the case, you should still use it.
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See, I've always seen the statement that evolution is intentionless to be a bit arrogant. Consciousness, as we are just starting to learn, is a property of emergent networks. Further, we are just starting to discover that phenotypical expression is so much more complex than 1/2mom + 1/2dad = baby. Evolution is calculating something, even if it's inscrutable to us.
> like CNN has a pro-US bias

Only if you believe it is pro-US to abolish the right to bear arms, the right to free speech (hate speech laws) and to impose Socialism on US citizens.
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Snopes' take:
http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/
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Assuming you're not super hungry for facebook, isn't it trivial to just block the main newsfeed and only permit it when you click on a specific friend's profile? IIRC ads aren't displayed when you click on a specific person's profile.
They're not federally funded, correct
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Outing a source that's already dead and everyone who wants anyone connected to him controlled/dead?

No, I don't think there's any added risk at this point.
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Most of the infamous emails can be summarized with a "Hey, lets do X" followed by a coded "No". There is no smoking gun whatsoever.
The white-collar version of "beatings will continue until morale improves"?
I agree, there's a ton of room here for discussion. There's something at a more fundamental level that is broken in our society and it seems to have worsened with the rise of technology enabling people to still conduct their lives while being anti-social. The same exact things that have in some ways been a boon for me personally have also been detrimental to society because they've been enablers for an increase in the number of psychopaths who are running companies.

At some point society will need to make a choice (if it doesn't end up being made for us in one way or another along the way). We need to figure out if we want to prioritize wealth or welfare (in the broadest sense of those terms). That is, do we consider it ethical and acceptable for one person to lord over others within their micro-fiefdom merely on the justification of "getting there first". Or do we consider how the entry into a post-scarcity society empowers us to think globally and communally, where the goals are the advancement of everyone as a whole rather than individuals.

Personally, I follow a highly individualist philosophy, but I'm not ignorant to some of the unintended consequences that can come from that philosophy, and I think the fact we govern ourselves at a crossroads without wholly committing to either side actually worsens these consequences. Collectivism philosophies come with their own consequences, but I think once resources no longer are limiting factors for individuals or groups, it becomes about allocation of intellectual energy instead and this is where a collectivist philosophy might shine.

It's easy to say we shouldn't blame the CEOs, but in this case I think there's something related between how shareholders and boards think about CEO behavior, how employees think about CEO behavior, how CEOS think about their own behavior, and our social trend towards cults of personality and celebrity. We as a society have put a significant amount of effort into glorifying people who are act like total dicks in the business world. To some extent, it's helped us get to this point. But there's a huge amount of ethical concerns with that, and it's just simply no longer necessary and is now detrimental to getting further.

At the end of the day though, we've enshrined a ton of power and wealth in these individuals and they have a responsibility to themselves and to all those that depend on them to make the right choices. Ethics is a huge component of this, and the fact so many of these CEOs behave unethically towards one reliant party (shareholders, customers, vendors, employees) or another is a testament to their willingness to compromise ethics in favor of personal enrichment. That's an individual choice and we can't blame anyone else for making it. It's even more egregious when the CEOs in question are also founding members of their companies, such as Bezos and Ellison that I called out in my original post by name.
Yep, worth a read, especially if you're considering doing this kind of scan for yourself.

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/blob/master/dat...
Thanks, yes, I'm ashamed of my code, this is my first project in ruby , my last programming work was 15 years ago, (Foxpro for DOS) so this is my comeback to programming.

I hope that being opensource will help it to improve.
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Wikileak's philosophy is not that all information should be public. Assange has been explicitely asked about this. The real idea is simpler, that you should know who you're voting for.
You're right that not every website is critically important, but that also wasn't my point. My real point is that it is important to treat every website as though it were, because having that decision making ability is dangerous.

I think we mostly agree here though :).
start hitting the phones, buddy. there's no secret trick to getting work, it's called sales.
Hello HN'ers,

I wanted an easier way to search for users of HackerNews, view their submissions and comments.

There are lots of things I wanted to include, but just wanted to get this out there to get some feedback. Would love to hear what you guys think.

Note : I think there was a similar site a few years ago called "hackernewser" - I'm not sure what happened to it because it now gives an error. Anyway, this project was partially inspired by that.
I wish redshift[0] used relative brightness.

[0] https://github.com/jonls/redshift
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I've had hours of fun playing Jamestown on Linux. I think this article reflects a problem the Humble folks have now they've decided that they're a business. Paying customers expect products that work out of the box. Back when the Humble Indie Bundle was a clearly a charity thing it seemed pretty well understood that the Linux ports were done on a shoestring, and I was happy to support the attempt even if I had to muck around with video drivers and potentially hose my X configuration to make things work. Which they usually did and sometimes didn't.

But today, with competition from GoG, Steam, et al., the Humble Bundle is a commercial product with a charity marketing angle, rather than a charitable giving event. Now that it has customers instead of donors, they shouldn't be surprised that they're getting this kind of response.
I think the outcome of the first generation of smartphone OS's has (surprisingly for me at least) shown that there's really only room for a handful of players (Android/AChina, iOS) with sufficient numbers of users to be self-sustaining.

As you note, not sure a unipolar outcome would ever be stable enough to have persisted, but I wouldn't have expected a bipolar arrangement either. And I can imagine a market structure that would have depressed manufacturer profits far enough so as to preclude serious R&D / innovation on their parts.
It's a huge problem if it's expecting you to use the AMD closed-source drivers but the open-source drivers in the 4.4 kernel you're using perform better.
Hyperpersonalization can turn a sales possibility into a great big YES
This is very neat, I hope I will have time to dig into this at some later date. Great job!
It's really not.

The MacBook Air is "superior" in two objective specs: speed & price. That's honestly it, and it's not even that much faster. It also has more ports & a more traditional keyboard/trackpad, but those are subjective differences.

The two people I know with them can barely tell the difference between the Air keyboard and their MacBook keyboard, didn't realize the Force Touch trackpad wasn't a physical click, and only ever plug their computer into a charger or a projector which required an adapter on the Air anyways.

The MacBook blows the Air out of the water in every other way. Design, weight, thickness it's not even a contest. The screen is orders of magnitude better. Battery life is better, sleep/wake response is better, power draw is lower, charging is faster.
For the US, it makes more sense if you see it as the company nickel-and-diming employees.
> It reveals that you are more likely to become an olympic medalist if you are from the Caribbean, Scandinavia, certain Eastern European countries, Australia and New Zealand, than if you are Chinese, American or Russian.

The Olympics is actually set up to favor smaller countries by nature of having a cap on how many people from one country can compete in an event. There are probably many athletes from US/China/Russia that would compete were they from other countries.
Actually, in several states the two-party system is baked pretty deeply into the state-level laws. Pennsylvania, for example, has a primary system where one has to declare whether one is Democrat, Republican, or Independent, and then must vote on the ballot corresponding to that declaration (with the Independent ballot holding only referendum questions and not any input into the primary process).

Those elections use the state's voting machines and vote security infrastructure. That's functionally equivalent to being state-funded, even if the funding is in terms of human-power and machine use donation and not cash.
Isn't this a solution waiting for a (sponsored) problem?

Zone Improvement Plan solved a problem and where would shipping be without it?
Employees quit their bosses not the company.
I think that's a bit quick to accuse someone of conspiracy theories.

"The DNC is rigged and Hillary Clinton is closely connected to many mysterious deaths."
Conspiracy theorist!

leaks occur supporting the conspiracy theory

Look, the real issue here is that Assange is meddling with elections! Our corruption is our business alone! Look how he implies conspiracy theories (which we all know are never true). How reckless!!
This is content which the typical bullied and vulnerable employee loves to read: 'Yes of course. It's my boss who drove me into depression.'

Don't want to sound too cynical but a job is a job at the end of the day and life is more complex. Just blaming the boss for all the misery is a bit too easy.

I expect to get downvoted because more people reading here have a boss than the other way round (I guess).
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Very strong anti-Wikileaks vibe in this thread. But, why? Someone was murdered (irrespective of if they're a Wikileaks source or not) and Wikileaks is putting money on the table to help get it solved and bringing greater attention to it. In my book trying to help solve murders is a Good Thing™.

I have to say I am surprised, in 2016, how well the Red Scare still works in the US. You say Russia is behind something and the entire american public ignore the actual content of the leaks and talk about how evil Putin is.
AFRAID SEA here. To avoid confusion, might be best to exclude words that are common placenames from the word list (street, road, lake) as well as rude words.

Great to see an open alternative to http://what3words.com (and I also love the icon as visual hash.)
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The important point is to be able to effectively use a single (non-JS ^) programming language for mobile, browser and server-side. Ideally, to cut down on the technologies folks would have to come up to speed on and allow them to go deep with a particular language. This is beyond isomorphic apps, though, these are included. So, F# can theoretically run on the server, in the browser (via Fable [1]) and on mobile (via Xamarin Studio [2]). Clojure has a similar story since JVM languages can run on Android mobile phones/tablets and there is ClojureScipt [3]. These are just some examples of ones I am aware of. (I wonder if there is something like Fable for Swift?)

Is this a pipe dream, or is there real value to this approach?

^ Why non-JS? Mainly because I am interested in exploring other languages that can include statically typed, compiled languages.

[1] https://fsprojects.github.io/Fable/
[2] https://www.xamarin.com/studio
[3] https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

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Of course you'll be called a "conspiracy theorist" for speculating about this case in any way deviating from the official narrative. But the circumstances are extremely suspicious.

The DNC voter expansion data director was found shot dead, assassination style, two bullets in the back, in one of the safest neighborhoods of DC. Nothing was taken off his person. No forensic evidence was left behind. Yet the police deemed it a "robbery gone wrong." How can anyone believe this was a robbery gone wrong?
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Doesn't it make it even worse? A private, oblique organisation has effective stranglehold on who gets the shot at presidency with little oversight, because "private"
My subway station is apparently a SHITHOLE.
From my understanding, Wilson Sonshini counts Google as a client, and works heavily in antitrust matters. Can you not see the issue with someone in the FTC then being handed a position at Google's antitrust lawyer, and then Google itself? Would a FTC member doing their job, being critical of companies like Google, be offered a job with Google's defense?

Similarly, after paid Google shill (literally by his own admission) Joshua Wright finished his stint as the FTC Commissioner (amazingly, an investigation against Google disappeared during his term), he then recently got a job with Wilson Sonshini as well.
That's for FTE software developers.

Keep in mind that can be somewhat misleading, if you have 3 positions and for 2 of those you have people who have stayed there 5+ years but for the other one you have had 5 people cycle through at a year each the median tenure will still be just 1 year. Even so, that's a pretty scary stat.
If anyone is interested in a dumb-down exploration of the Secure Enclave covered in this presentation, as well as a couple fundamental security principles, check out my blog at: https://woumn.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/security-principles-i...

I wrote it with the intent of reaching an uneducated audience, so feel free to use this for explaining to friends the importance of security in their devices. I also go a bit more in depth on some of the key wrapped handled by the SEP, however, I don't cover any of the cloud key validation stuff.

As always, I welcome constructed criticism :^)
>The DNC isn't even a government, wasn't the whole point of WikiLeaks to hold governments and their leaders accountable?

Something tells me you would not be making this comment if they released leaks that implicated "evil" corporations like Exxon-Mobile, Wal-Mart, Koch, ect.
You're conflating privacy and security (which are similar I know).

If you know my entire banking history that's a privacy issue (which jfaucett was ok with). However, if you are able to access my account and take money, that's a security problem.

The line can get really fuzzy sometimes, but they are different issues.
I had a co-worker who made threats against anyone whose hands came close to his screen. Even pointing at the screen was enough to get a look of death.
Did I say anything about why he lost? In fact most of these e-mails released so far occurred after he had little chance of winning. Nope, pure distraction in an attempt to deflect from my points.

Also see: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11056

I'm sure you'll be back to "correct the record"!
This is a well written piece that has enough tech mumbo-jumbo to scare the non-tech literate person away. I enjoyed it but are there other, more widely accessible scare pieces out there? It's this kind of thing that needs to reach privacy conscious people so that we can stop governments from mandating stupid stuff like backdoors.
But why? Forget about the tech. What does this accomplish? What3words is nonsensical for the same reasons- Amazon Prime is not coming to Mongolia anytime soon and it has a lot more to do with little disposable income/economics than logistics.
Since I use an iPad on a relatively regular basis, I find myself reaching for the screen on my MacBook when it's on my lap and I'm reading the web. Scrolling through webpages with a touch on the screen is a natural gesture now; having to pull my hands back to the touchpad feels clunky in comparison.

It's a minor wish, but a worthwhile addition, IMO.
Seems more easily remembered and therefore easier to accurately share without reliance on technology. 6342 LAY TRANSCENDENT (my location right now) is easier to write down, and comes with a built in typo checker (icon is the earth in this case).
thanks, I'll add the link.
I don't think (most) benefits are withheld in canada (or in europe). The point of probation there is to provide an initially relaxed (labor protections wise) 3~6 months "at will" to check for actual suitability since you don't really know whether things work out until work's actually been done. Breaking the relationship later is a more involved and expensive process and the thinking is that within the early 3~6 months the employee would know whether they want to stay, and the company whether they want to keep.
Thanks cgsmith, a pocket calculator will be great when decoding/encoding by hand.
Im guessing that low tech phones (even old nokias) can do the trick by using it as calculator, but then that may not be as low tech as needed.