skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming Russia's government was involved in the DNC hack (which, despite most of HN repeatedly saying it's just a conspiracy theory or fearmongering or falsely suggesting that the only evidence is Russian IPs or Russian comments, seems quite plausible at this point), they're trying to help elect the candidate who would best serve their interests. Between Hillary and Trump, that's Trump.
Consider a simpler case of two dimensional real vectors.
Lets consider the vector space of R^2, since all finite dimensional vector spaces of same dimensionality are isomorphic, R^2 is isomorphic to the complex numbers.

How would you order the complex numbers?
But they should totally have golden key back doors to everything and can surely keep THAT safe.
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However you find it emotionally, it's the truth.

> Life, and love, is far more than an exercise in evolutionary psychology.

I agree, there is additional value in the emergent behavior of evolutionarily driven organism (us). However, this isn't contradictory to what I said.
so you think that a town should have no say whatsoever in deciding what should be built in its borders? By this analogy ?
It's been suggested by US security officials that the Russians were behind the DNC hack. This is significant because Trump has expressed a strikingly favorable attitude towards Putin and the DNC is essentially Trump's enemy.
Very nice, sounds like Rearden Steel, if you excuse my objectvism
Awesome article. What a legend!
> That's because what is appropriate value depends entirely on the person you're dating

But you're still demonstrating value, yes? I admit that there is no universal value function. It is subjective to a large degree. However, we can pick out large-scale trends fairly easily.

> The only way you're speaking the truth is if just about every human behavior qualifies as demonstrating success

Not sure what you mean.
Supposedly the Trump campaign is viewed as getting along with Russia while Hillary's campaign is viewed as more antagonistic toward Russia. Trump and Vladimir Putin are both rich businessmen. This article has some details:

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/27/12271042/donald-trump-russia-pu...

> All of this raises one big question: What the hell is going on with Trump and Russia? The answer appears to be twofold. First, the Kremlin appears to be interfering in the US election in a way likely to help Trump become president. (...)

> Second, Trump is deeply, weirdly pro-Russian. Trump’s proposed foreign policy would, intentionally or no, aid Vladimir Putin in ways the Russian dictator could only dream about before Trump. Trump has repeatedly expressed wild admiration for Putin personally; his campaign staff and businesses have extensive ties to Russian interests. (Just yesterday, the New York Times reported the existence of a handwritten ledger documenting $12.7 million in payments to Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, from Ukraine's pro-Russian deposed president, Viktor Yanukovych).

Trump has been known to make statements like, "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing [from Hillary Clinton's email server]. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

The article also reviews the evidence pointing to that Russia might be interfering in the election or helping Trump in some way.
source: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765513662597623808
I recommend Dave Aitel's explanation of the hack (link below). https://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-eqgrp-leak...

Even with NSA's considerable budget operating and defending against Russia, China and several dozen other unfriendly and friendly countries is no easy task.
I've heard it was what prevented them from going bankrupt immediately.

The hundreds of millions they got from selling it (at a loss, IIRC) kept the lights on long enough for them get on their feet again.
Knowledge isn't conducive to happiness.
so, should a town be allowed to decide what kind of zoning it wants to have, or should it be decided by a decree from Federal government? So, suppose people in a town decided they want their town to be a town of 2 story single family homes. Should they be allowed to make that decision or not? Suppose all of New York decides to move to Palo Alto within the next 5 years. Should current homeowners in Palo Alto have the ability to decide how much housing and what kind of housing should be built to accommodate that demand?
I had the same question. I think they mean it can bend (without breaking), but it still takes a huge force to do so - more than the same metal with conventional treatment.
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Intel announces Project Alloy, an all-in-one VR headset
I'm actually a millennial too, I just don't give a damn about all these new apps that are reinventing irc for the tap/swipe people.
So, it sounds like Snowden going public forced them to tighten up security, in effect locking out the Russians that previously had access to the source code of taxpayer sponsored malware? Lovely, that.
SVB is a great bank and I don't mean to say anything too negative but it doesn't mean that they don't do some silly things sometimes. It gives me a laugh that they do this so I thought I'd share. I hope my tone was "friendly poking fun" and not "putting someone down". The startup I founded used SVB and I had a great relationship with them.

The DMV on the other hand....
1.day is not a native Ruby concept, it is a method monkeypatched into the Numeric class by Rails' ActiveSupport. See http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Numeric.html#method-i-day and https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Numeric.html.
"Japan making steel 20-30% lighter and 25% stronger than the toughest high-tensile steel at the same price":

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/07/japan-making-steel-20-3...
State sponsored fundamental research for one. Pretty much all of the actual computing innovation was a direct result of fundamental research that was sponsored by the state either directly or indirectly. Heck, modern compilers have a direct line back to Grace Hopper working at the naval research lab.

Commercializing stuff is great and all but there is no point in pretending it is the same or equal to the kind of innovative work that consistently happens at research universities and arguably a lot of the future is invented there even if it is not commercialized.

Also what are these dozens of other projects Facebook is currently innovating on? I do see a lot of duplicated effort across google, facebook, apple, and microsoft when it comes to AI research though. This is why I don't quite get how people can argue for commercial innovation and market efficiency all in the same sentence or paragraph when there is obvious and clear evidence to the contrary.
Good call. That's a simpler example than where I was going.
Can you explain? I'm familiar with the mechanics and abilities, but probably not the tactics.
Gawker is being sold to Univision for $135M
This fits with my view of the world
I suspect that what you're imagining by "more ductile" is "it can be crumpled more easily", but I think what it really means is "it loses less strength when crumpled".
Nops nothing is fixed it's just one scenario, besides your math is wrong. 50KB/connection won't map to 2000 connections.
People pay $5+/mo to watch gamer streams? That can't be right.

Edit: Found an example,
https://www.twitch.tv/products/leagueofgeeks/ticket

$5/mo for some random features and no ads, with "limited exceptions", so not actually ad-free. What are you paying for?
There are several resolutions to this complaint. One popular suggestion is that any causality-violating wormholes would cause a feedback loop of virtual particles to accumulate inside the wormhole and destroy it.

> It might be mathematically interesting but that's it

That's exactly what they said about photons and antimatter. Both were discovered mathematically before they were discovered physically. "Oh, this is just a mathematical fluke, this couldn't exist in the real world."

The best physical theory we currently have admits the existence of wormholes. If you have a problem with that, then feel free to try to come up with an alternate physics that explains the world better than we can right now.
There is an overemphasis on Trump in commentary concerning the DNC hack. The explanation is even more basic. In the same way the US has pursued Putin's power base economically the Russian's are pursuing Obama (and now Hillary's) base. Each is trying to fracture the political support base of the other's respective policy makers. Trump is at best tangential to all this.
took me awhile to understand it. maybe make the crosshair a little more visible.
Are we now disputing that ignorance is a bad thing, really? Do you think society is better off with more uneducated people? Racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, etc are all symptoms of ignorance; those are petty tribalisms. Ignorance isn't something to defend, but to strive to eliminate.
So far I haven't seen either of these libraries do substantially better than datetime+dateutil+pytz at anything they claim to be good at.
Surely if "Russia" releases Hillarys emails it wouldnt be a big deal because she says there is no national security issue with her private server?
Is it possible that it's an insider operation like that of Snowden himself? Perhaps it's somebody who wanted the information outed, but who wanted to avoid the 'publicity' (and all that it brings).
Hillary approved giving Russia control of 20% of US uranium.

It's obvious that Hillary is better for Russia. I think Putin just likes or admires Trump in an entirely personal way. Having Putin all starstruck could be a good thing.
I can only speak to my experience and those of my friends who have started companies. This is the kind of experience we had
"It is unreasonable for the government to limit housing"
for which government? federal, state, local? Is it really that unreasonable for homeowners in a town to exercise some measure of control over their own town?
OK, that's more like it. The marketoids should have led with that and gotten bigger from there, rather than leading with the mundane stuff I can already do just as well with a bog-standard computer.
There are streamers that have people who have subbed at $4.99 a month for 12+ months, upwards of some I've seen at 30+ months. Every 12 months is called a twitchaversery.
Given that Snowden was popping off keys just recently, this seems like an odd coincidence. I'm not saying he's involved, I'm saying he probably should be considered a datapoint in this drama.
The carets are part of DeckSet's markdown extensions. This is the source for a presentation, and lines prefaced with a caret are turned into speaker's notes.

I imagine the inspiration for them choosing a caret is that carets are used to signal footnotes in some markdown flavours.
The Battle Over Net Neutrality Started with the 1920s-Era 'Hush-A-Phone'
Hasbro bought Larami then rebranded them as Nerf guns.
Synchronization-free concurrency -- or concurrency without parallelism -- is a separate issue. E.g. Async JS has it, but async Java does not.

(Also, I must point out that single-threaded concurrency instead of true parallelism ignores most of the available performance of modern hardware.)
Putin doesn't like or admire anyone but Putin.
Hans Zimmer and Chris Nolan on Interstellar Soundtrack
(I posted in anther thread but this might be more appropriate)

Took a quick look at files:

> TOOLS/Apache/httpd-2.0.52-9.ent.i386.rpm

Heh RHEL4! Nothing points to a 3 letter US govt agency like an outdated RHEL version. Even for 2013 (based on file date) RHEL4 was ancient. RHEL7 beta for example, came out that year.

Also another striking thing about it, there are no swear or l33t-speak words in there. I know if I had to write ASN.1-based SNMP firmware hacks for obscure Juniper switches, that code would be drowning in curse words.

Seeing this kind of stuff is fun too:

ar rules update filename `/tmp/.b` type ar url http://topsec.com.cn

Also a bit of whimsy perhaps, can't be too serious after all, even at the NSA:

class ELCAExploit(HTTPSExploit):
name = "ELIGIBLECANDIDATE"
version = "v1.1.0.1"
desc="What is the sound of a single thread blocking?"
modes = ["nopen"]
Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective, because I was kind of wondering how the system works - so LiveNation is now supposedly sync'd to the TSA? What kind of cross-over info-sharing is that supposed to be?

Sharing TSA-sensitive information with another party like LiveNation gives me a lot of initial reservations. Why is this a good thing? Is it Security Theater? What kind of security precautions does LiveNation have with that sensitive data?

In my experience LiveNation can't even guarantee their system is able to address bots/scalpers at best, or at worst, they enable such things through their relationship with StubHub.

I just wanted to share the development for discussion. As a fellow Dallas area resident I know this town is usually pretty 'strapped' (e.g. carrying a firearm) and it's a unique kind of consideration. Not saying I like having guns in venues with booze and emotions, but if there's some way to, uh, kind of get around it I'm not sure I like that mucho.
Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
Are you supposed to see anything? I only see a crosshair overlaid on Google Maps.

Firefox 47.0.1 on W7 x64
arrow.get(value).humanize()

How can I do this with datetime+dateutil+pytz?
I don't think base salary is a very good measure of compensation at places like Google. Are you suggesting that RSUs and bonuses be valued at $0?
They don't pay to watch, they pay to support the streamer.

Most streamers have subscriber/donation/cheer notifications appear on-screen in some way. Making partner on Twitch (which enables subscriptions) requires the streamer to have a consistent number of viewers each time they stream, and they must stream fairly often.

It's not uncommon to see streamers with a fairly sizeable number of subscribers any given month.
How much are 4 Xeon Phi servers, mellanox cards and a large switch between them ?
With Microsoft buying Beam and Google maybe doing more with YouTube streaming, I'd say at least the streaming part of the market doesn't look like it will consolidate further, but rather split up more, away from only Twitch.
"Fruit" is a biological classification, "vegetable" is a culinary one. Tomatoes are both. "Fruit" also has a colloquial meaning which generally contrasts with vegetable, hence the discrepancy.
I am confused. Isn't there supposed to be some test set result which verify the performance of the model?

Things like Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Absolute Error, Relative Absolute Error, Coefficient of Determination etc.
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This isn't personal or about admiration. This is about Russian leadership responding to immense economic pressures at home. Buttons have been pushed freezing the assets of Putin supporters, sanctions have been imposed, and Putin's supporter's foreign bank accounts appear to have been exposed. May the Russian leadership have deserved it? Irrelevant. Either way, they appear to be pushing back hard. For you kiddies not around during the Cold War, this so far appears to be light hearted fun by comparison.
Honestly, unpack: What keeps you from this?
Why not submit fixes for the existing library instead?
Knowing banks/financial institutions that monthly statement is definitely generate by a batch job and isn't recreated on the fly each time you request it.
Terse feedback can be fine, once you know that, for a specific person, terse feedback is effective.

I have met more than a few people that said they preferred "brutal honesty", but would still react very defensively to straightforward, terse feedback.

Being terse without seeming to be on the attack is very difficult, and it is human nature to defend ourselves -- and stop listening! -- if we perceive that we are being attacked.
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>Supposedly the Trump campaign is viewed as getting along with Russia while Hillary's campaign is viewed as more antagonistic toward Russia. Trump and Vladimir Putin are both rich businessmen.

All irrelevant. If its the Russian's its tit-for-tat reactions to pressure Russia is experiencing as a result of certain policy choices its made these past years:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/20/obama-extends-...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/20/u-s-freezes-assets-of-ru...
There is one streamer I follow who has 6600 active subscribers right now. His subs pay $4.99 a sub. And regularly had 20k+ viewers everyday.

https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage
Streamers can choose different features that are reserved for subscribers only, but with maybe the exception of a few large events (at least in the past some gated HD streams behind the subscription) it's more like perks for people supporting the streamer, not for access to the content.

Patreon is also not uncommon, + with the potential of higher amounts with better perks.
I had a manager once who would say "mmm-hmm" all the time. It was really distracting and actually made it seem like he wasn't listening at all, even if he was actually hanging on my every word.
Nothing but vague insights that shouldn't be surprising, IMHO.
If Snowden never leaked anything, this would be a huge revelation.

But this is just some technical documentation about project codenames we already know a lot about.

#################
# Survey #
#################

# Set up forward tunnel to TCP/443 on the target, and reverse tunnel for NOPEN.

-tunnel
l 443 $TARGETIP 443
r $RHP1 127.0.0.1 $RHP1

#perform touch to gather info and set env for exploit

./eligiblecandidate.py -t https://127.0.0.1:443 touch

It's dozens of documents like these, and poorly written scripts (not to be confused with operation "scripts", like movie scripts) to make it a bit easier.

The only somewhat interesting thing is the exploit code for ex-0-days, but I believe vendors are mostly patched against everything discussed in the Snowden leaks. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Evil mode: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love emacs
Thank you for this practical summary, I had the book but didn't read it yet.
Finding an optimal solution to explore-vs-exploit is the "multi-armed bandit" problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

> Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it

...though it's actually gotten a lot of great mathematical solutions over the decades :)
Remember, Gates' and Zuckerberg's wealth is the product of society itself -- the reason they are so "wealthy" is because we believe in and partake in a system that reinforces their wealth and high value.

The biggest threat to their wealth would be a collapse of the current society -- the status quo -- and so, although they may have SOME material goods (okay, more than most others), the vast majority of the value of what that they have is merely on paper or "stock," whose value is determined entirely socially.

Of course, their value could vanish in an instant if society no longer believes in their wealth or the system that proliferated it.

Granted, it would take a "total collapse" (and resultant lack of faith in our economic system) for this to happen, but historically, societies don't fail gradually or softly, they implode.

A real life example of such a loss of "faith" in a massive quantity of wealth that isn't civilization-scale such as the fall of the Roman Empire (as recent in history as it is) on an individual-scale would be Theranos and the instantaneous deflation of Holmes' net worth from a socially propped-up "cool billion" to zilch.

People en masse generally don't take too well to mass corruption. Over history, the average lifespan of a social empire has been 300 years, and the western-dominated global sociopolitical landscape est. 1776 (largely a product of American military superiority and foreign interventionalism) is now getting a little long in the tooth.

It's in their best interest to keep giving the masses their opiate.
I do research in combinatorial optimization. Does your company solve any problems with a combinatorial flavor? (say, things can be optimized using combinatorial algorithms instead of going for gradient descent.
Huh, it's made by the Chrome team.

> Before Chrome 52, the backspace key navigated back...Many people lost their progress while working online by accidentally pressing backspace and leaving a page -- so we removed the feature from Chrome, and created this extension for those who prefer the old behavior.

I've been hurt too deeply by backspace to ever miss it, but but that was...thoughtful of them.
Very cool - there is Convox who does this as well.

one question - there have been a few open source PAAS out there for a while. But no real competitor to Heroku till now. What's missing ?
There is no evidence that Clinton was directly involved with this decision. Furthermore, the company involved may have 20% of US uranium production capacity, but it actually only produces about 11% of US uranium.

Please save the Donald Trump talking points for a more appropriate forum.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294976
NSA is not agitating for backdoors; FBI and other domestic law enforcement is.
Then the company is reimbursing an individual license which might not be okay with the license terms. :-/ I can't recall which, but I think that wasn't okay with JetBrains for example.
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As stated in the article, it means that it can bend further without cracking. When metal has cracked apart, it isn't resisting force any more. If it is only bent, then it can still absorb more energy.
Objectivism Shrugged :-)
There are no feral honeybees in the US. They were wiped out, not by neonics, but by the varroa mite, 30 years ago.

(Before we colonized this place, there were no wild honeybees: they're an introduced species).

Honeybees are livestock, not wildlife.
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I don't know about the UK, but there are (essentially) no feral honeybees in the US, and there haven't been in something like 30 years, not because of pesticides, but because of the varroa mite.
from the animated-gif it seems like the back sides are blank as well. Just think of how much cheaper it would be to ship that statement with the proper small condensed monospaced font, multi-column, and and double sided. Welcome to the 1990s SVB!
Yep this matches my experience with unicorn stock options. It was a pain to come up with the exercise price & AMT upfront in the first place but the AMT was refunded in full the next year.
This is just an example of smart Scandinavians being 3 steps ahead again. I wonder what'll happen with the Brazil built Olympic villages.
Ask HN: What are good examples of Spark code on GitHub?
So we can read and learn from the source code.
Looks clean.

I think the `in_words()` function should probably be delimited by commas though, good to have your strings easily deconstructed into their constituent parts.