skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded the archive. I think people should make their own picture of it. There is a lot of content. The "Pay to Play" folder is just case studies of pay to play having taken place and does not implicate the Clinton Foundation in any foul play.

For instance, one document describes how a certain congressman, Brian Bilbray (R), wrote H.R 4056 to stop inspections of drug and medical warehouses in California before cashing in with donations from various medical companies. A couple of other congressmen and women of both parties are listed as well in the documents along with bills they passed and the companies that donated to them.

The newest documents are from July 5th.
Watching videos while working out on a machine at the gym is also a great use case.
Reeder (iOS) does that and it's great. When you open an item, it shows the feed content, with a prominent button that will snag the page content and run it through a mobilizer service. I think there's an option to make that the default functionality too, though I prefer to attempt reading the RSS data first for speed.

It works standalone or can sync with Feedly, Newsblur, or other services.
It would also be more accurate to talk about Latin reading, rather than Latin speaking. Imagine a modern Europe where people speak German, English, Italian, Spanish and all the numerous other variants, but still read and write everything and Latin.
>treating this as if the decision is easy is vastly unfair.

Especially for Yahoo, given their tough financial and market situation. It was far easier For Apple and Google.
Sooo, uh, do zero interest rates make life easier or harder for a bond trader?
You might also want to add https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40 to your list of cheap dedicated servers.

It’s seriously crazy how expensive AWS, Azure, and co are.
If she had wanted to this to get out, I wonder if she could have ordered the email team to go ahead and build out the sniffer so she is not in contempt of the court, but let her security team openly blog about it, without informing her, when they found it - which could lead to an inadvertent release of the info? If the sec team was not under the gag order maybe they would not have gotten in trouble.

Or take her to a super boss level, she could have used whisper to talk to guccifer and let him know about some vuln that would allow access to the legal directory.... which would have to gag order. #wikileakitup
I'm glad you brought that dabeaz talk up, I really enjoyed that one myself.
I see how you conveniently avoided listing their thickness. HTC 10 is 20% thicker then iPhone 7 plus.
What carrier do you want to use the phone with? If, say, you want to use it with AT&T, just go in and buy an AT&T phone. It will be unlocked. Just swap out the SIM card in the phone with the one you already have if you don't want to activate the provided SIM card for some reason.
Do you have an example? If you're talking about government-sponsored assassinations, I think that's less relevant, we're talking about how "normal" people can influence politicians.
Not really. Modern Italians are similar to their neighboring countries in term of people, i.e. Most of them are not direct descendants of Romans, but of the invading Goths, Lombards, and so on. They did adapt Latin as their language though.
Agreed. WebOS was the only other OS other than iOS that offered the singular upgrade experience.

It was clunky under the hood and never received enough love. It would have been interesting to see where WebOS (phone) would be today had Palm survived.
The ones paying the security guards are the Jewish Community Foundation, presumably of Kansas City. They are, I assume, the ones who wanted an attendee and a library employee arrested.

Their web site seems to be down at the moment, though.
I question how well it will work without the power of the higher end computer.
I'm saddened by the continued fragmentation.

"Google Assistant" replaces the Google search bar... but only on the Pixel? So this is yet another Android device that behaves differently from every other.

The exclusive carrier is Verizon. Why not Google Fi?

The default video app is Duo. Why not Hangouts?

Does "Google Now On Tap" get replaced by the assistant for the Pixel? Is that just for the Pixel?

I don't get it. I don't understand how Google can think this produces a cohesive, meaningful experience for their users when they keep changing things or fragmenting their platforms.

Edit: Full disclosure, my only smartphone is a Nexus 5X. I like it, I don't like Google's platform chaos.
> So who do we trust? Governments?

Yourself? The idea that you have to either trust governments or corporations is very much a false dichotomy.

GPG, running your own mail server, etc. may not be for you (they aren't for me), but let's not pretend cloud-hosted mail is the only option, or that encryption is impossible.
I suspect it's the social aspect that would make a hack like this relatively easy.

It's really easy to get in to a network when there are hundreds or thousands of individuals you can target via phishing, etc.

On the other hand, targeting just _your_ machines could prove more difficult since there's only one of you.
Yep, I've had this problem forever. Close relatives think I'm deaf before I can't understand them when there's a lot of ambient noise or they aren't speaking clearly, even though I can hear everything else just fine (and have always been very protective of my hearing). There's apparently no way I can convince them otherwise. In American culture, if you can't easily understand people speaking in a whisper in an extremely loud bar, then you're assumed to be hard of hearing.
That sounded odd to me also. Maybe they are referring to a tear/cut that would change an object's topology. Like taking a bite from a donut changes it from a torus to a sphere. That break is not a continuous change, more "step-wise".
The issue is that they, and other administrative organs, often change their interpretation of what the law "has always meant". Particularly irksome when they issue private letters with differing interpretations and then override all of them with subsequent administrative rulings.

The ATF is particularly notorious for this.
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Isn't that what they were doing for a while? And then Intel slipped the date on the Kaby Lake chips?
Cool idea but why would I pay for this when I could pay for a proper helpdesk service instead?
Easy to do != easy to discover
Sourcegraph CEO here. Hi Sunny! Thanks for the kind words. Yes, Ruby support will be publicly released when it's super high quality and fast.

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Nixon is definitely to blame for starting the whole thing, but practically every administration since than has contributed - and not just Republicans.

For example, you know that progressive darling, Joe Biden? Well, that guy has been instrumental in expanding civil asset forfeiture in collaboration with the Reagan administration, which put in place the economic underpinning of the whole "war on drugs" thing that makes the law enforcement agencies so heavily invested in continued prosecution of it. He was also behind the "COPS" program, which evolved into the present system of police departments militarizing by acquiring surplus and retired equipment from the military, all funded by the feds.
Maximizing shareholder value is like a death grip that squeezes any public corporation into not making financial gambles on ethical grounds.

It's so important that these leaks go public for two critical reasons:

1) with that type of financial regulatory environment for public companies, the only way to create incentives for that type of consumer protection play is when it has monetary consequences if they do nothing (customers shutting down their accounts)

2) court docs from an earlier Yahoo trial in a secret court were already released when the NSA requested a huge trove of emails and Yahoo challenged it. I read the judges ruling and the TLDR is that the judge said the customers will never know their email is being read so how can you claim that a privacy violation has occurred?

The twisted logic here is that there's no damage to the customer/company as long as the intrusion is conducted in total secrecy.

So that's why Yahoo is so willing to fold here. This is what they are dealing with.

Side note: Imagine the same logic was applied to police a search warrant that allowed police to enter hundreds of houses, a type of warrant that could never be challenged by these homeowners defence attorneys. "They'll never know police broke into their house and went through all of their drawers and personal belongings. They'll come home the next day and everything will seem exactly. the same. So what claim to privacy violation could do they have?"

The need for secrecy in FISA courts goes well beyond protecting state secrets like NSA tech. This type of judicial rationalization would never withstand scrutiny in open courts which is why total secrecy is the key.
I wonder how the detection works. I have three different monitors hooked up to my desktop computer at home, and one of them is exceptionally old and running on a VGA to DVI-I adapter. When I get home I'll see if Netflix complains if I drag the window over to that monitor.
> full weight? You mean like a small fine ?

The amount of leverage NSA/FISA have is rather different than what the CFPB has at its disposal.
Those aren't gamers.
The walls may not be a primary problem, but they do contribute. The simple test (which I've done) is to stand either side of a wall and check the signal. With an unobstructed line of sight to the router the signal is acceptable; on the other side of the wall the signal is poor (dropped ping packets, high latency, etc.). I doubt it's because of the additional 1 foot of distance from the router.

But to your point, I'm sure it's all interrelated and if I had concrete walls with no neighbors it would be significantly better.
The Nexus 5 was amazing, the 5X was acceptable, this.... makes me want another option.

Maybe you care about the camera, but I barely use mine except as a scanner replacement when sending documents.

All of the interesting announcements were about everything except the hardware, which IMO was extremely boring, and they've discontinued their mid-range line of phones so it's not even clear that you can get the software on other phones. You could argue this is exactly what Apple does, but that's the reason I refuse to buy Apple products.

I'm expecting and hoping a flop that causes a return to the spirit, if not the name, of the Nexus line.
Well, they've already "made an example" of the only company to truly stand in their way. Look at Qwest - you talk to the average citizen and their takeaway was that justice was served | A corrupt CEO ran the company into the ground and went to prison. Hurrah!

Don't pay attention to the fact he denied installing what he considered unconstitutional wire taps for the NSA resulting in the government pulling almost a billion dollars worth of contracts from the company. That example alone proved that the government can tell any narrative they want; they own the media, they'll own private companies too.
Any chance that this, and the recently announced historical account breach, are coming out as artifacts of Verizon's due diligence?
thats why i like using google allo - end-to-end encryption and expiring chats

https://allo.google.com/
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GITHUB HACKED: Unhashed passwords pasted, check your email, change your password
There is also no way to understand classical Chinese if you speak any modern Chinese language.

> The "Latin" that is generally studied at university these days comes from a mediaeval Latin that is a simplification of this old, vernacular form.

This is certainly not the case in the US. That sounds more like studying church Latin, which will be mocked if you're studying Latin outside an explicit religious context. Where are you?
Ignoring fiduciary responsibility for a minute, what would happen if a publicly-traded company refused to comply with such a court order until they were required to release a financial statement? Wouldn't they be legally required to disclose that multi-million dollar fine?

How would a company under such a gag order announce bankruptcy? "Sorry, we lost all the money and we can't tell you why"?
What's the deal with Dash Charging?

I see it uses USB-C but I don't understand the difference between Dash Charging and just regular fast charging over USB-C. It feels like unnecessary confusion.

Even after Googling I'm left wondering what the difference is beyond patents - as a user why do I care about this what method it uses to charge quickly?

Just charge quickly, and do it with any (specs compliant) USB-C cable if it can be negotiated with the power brick.

This is an interesting option for a phone despite that though, I'll have to find a colleague or friend who has it to checkout the OS and inspect for bloatware but this looks promising.
Current iPhones don't have the requisite hardware, but future iPhones might.
> Gross, who oversees the $1.5 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, recommended Bitcoin and gold for investors who are looking for places to preserve capital.

Because wild Bitcoin fluctuations are somehow less akin to gambling than the securities market?

Glad he also threw in some "buy gold" scaremongering too.

Does Janus benefit somehow from this kind of talk?
> But cars aren't some evil villain -- they simply represent a person, who needed to go to a place, in a reasonable amount of time.

They also represent negative externalities - both in air/noise (HONK HONK HONK) pollution and in human cost. Why should a person who chose to take up more space and introduce these externalities be favored over a person that is using significantly less space and not producing those externalities.

> The best way to reduce cars is to provide better (cheaper, faster, easier, safer) ways to get places that don't require cars

This requires removing the cars! Buses don't work well if the streets are clogged with cars (see: 23rd St. a few months ago vs. 23rd St. now, a huge improvement, and SBS hasn't even been enabled yet). Opponents of street safety improvements love to scream above truck deliveries, but truck deliveries would certainly be easy if there weren't private cars and taxis clogging up the street and using free parking, instead of having empty streets and adequate loading-only zones.

> They'd (usually) rather hit people with sticks, than offer up carrots.

Is hitting people with metaphorical sticks worse than hitting them with literal cars? That's what's happening in New York currently, people are run down all the time, and the killers get away with it almost every time. This isn't just about walkability, it's about crossing the street without feeling like my life is in danger. I've almost never seen a car be ready to turn and actually stay out of the crosswalk until all of the people have left it.

Who murdered Matthew Von Ohlen? The police found the car that did it, will we ever find out who owns it? Probably not.
The Japan team was very, very busy for the last several months preparing for launch specifically and the last year getting the groundwork in place for servicing Japanese businesses. I literally arrived back in Japan the day before launch, got my business cards, and just had to do some minor translation and utility salarymanning.
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Thanks for sharing this here.

FYI for those who haven't read it, Butler's "Parable of the Sower" is one of the most crucial novels of the last century. It mixes a future so dark and plausible it makes other dystopias look sweet and cartoonish with -- incredibly -- a cosmic optimism so deep and hopeful it makes you proud to be human. It's really an amazing book.
React in itself is simple, but familiar with and comfortable with the complexity of Webpack is another story ;)

Ok, I guess Webpack isn't too complex, but its weird syntax (the whole right to left chaining) and poor documentation can be a barrier.
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just an assumption here but I'm going to guess it doesnt apply for all netflix content, just the content where the owner is unnecessarily strict about where they view it
Click wherever you want, will you?
Chelsea Manning was imprisoned over something very different: she was a US soldier, not a private citizen, and she made public internal government documents, not a letter explicitly addressed to her.

Different standards do (and, IMO, should) apply to leakers who are government employees or members of the armed forces with a security clearance and to private citizens who are not 'leaking' something but rather sharing something they did not explicitly and voluntarily (through a contract or NDA) agree not to disclose.
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Oh gee, you mean to tell me the criminals in uniform out there to "serve and protect" us suddenly stop violating our rights when they MIGHT be held accountable? I say "might" because there is still no guarantee since the blue wall of bullshit is quite dense.

93% is an absolutely staggering statistic. No other change to police policy even comes close. And the beauty of it is that in addition to hopefully clamping down on bad cops, it also has the delightful use of protecting and exonerating the good ones who receive knowingly false complaints from people who are just being spiteful against cops that arrested them.

93% is a number that cannot be ignored. This, alone, is reason enough to justify the cost to get every single cop in this country suited up with a camera. It keeps everyone in check and acts as expert testimony that produces (in most cases) crystal clear memory of events for everyone to examine.

As a white male growing up in a very diverse area with a fairly high percentage of minorities, I never really believed those who claimed seemingly unbelievable stories of police mistreatment and excessive force. I had never personally experienced it, nor even bore witness to it at any time. I thought they were all lying through their teeth to stick to a claim of innocence and how the police steamrolled them. Now, looking back, I am left wondering how many of those stories were true. And I grew up in the 90's! I can't even imagine what really went on in the 60's and 70's.

Far too often we see videos detailing out horrible acts by law enforcement. Acts that if anyone without a badge were commit, EVEN IN SELF-DEFENSE, would in many cases land us in jail for a very, very long time. I wonder how many people I grew up with have criminal records today simply because they weren't the correct skin color.
Unicode is a fuckton of backwards compatibility. That’s the big reason those things exist.
I dumped mine as soon as I tried the fire TV stick.
Class based discrimination exists along side of racially based discrimination. Often, "white trash" is used as class and racially based slur. Ironically, it is often seen as a moral failure for a white person to be less educated and poor or very poor. I have not seen the same class based discrimination towards racial minorities, as lower to middle income is expected.

While I agree with your closing statement, I've sat in a few courtrooms where it has been very clear that white people with less education, income or job security are treated with a harsher temperament than some others.
If you want a calmer, more reflective treatment of the issue, I would recommend Radley Balko's book "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces".

Although it's pretty hard to discuss it calmly, precisely because once you start digging into it, there's so much stuff that's plainly damning and disgusting. For example, Balko also collected a significant number of quotes from law enforcement in his book; let me share some:

"Why serve an arrest warrant to some crack dealer with a .38? With full armor, the right shit, and training, you can kick ass and have fun."

"The officers with SWAT and dynamic-entry experience interviewed for this book say raids are orders of magnitude more intoxicating than anything else in police work. Ironically, many cops describe them with language usually used to describe the drugs the raids are conducted to confiscate. “Oh, it’s a huge rush,” Franklin says. “Those times when you do have to kick down a door, it’s just a big shot of adrenaline.” Downing agrees. “It’s a rush. And you have to be careful, because the raids themselves can be habit-forming.” Jamie Haase, a former special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement who went on multiple narcotics, money laundering, and human trafficking raids, says the thrill of the raid may factor into why narcotics cops just don’t consider less volatile means of serving search warrants. “The thing is, it’s so much safer to wait the suspect out,” he says. “Waiting people out is just so much better. You’ve done your investigation, so you know their routine. So you wait until the guy leaves, and you do a routine"

"One day, with a big smile on my face, I popped in to tell my deputy chief, Ed Davis, that I thought up an acronym for my special new unit. He was still, as we all were, glued to the classic concepts of policing, which discourage the formation of military-type units. But he realized some changes would have to be made. “It’s SWAT,” I said. “Oh, that’s pretty good. What’s it stand for?” “Special Weapons Attack Teams.” Davis blinked at me. “No.” There was no way, he said dismissively, he would ever use the word “attack.” I went out, crestfallen, but a moment later I was back. “Special Weapons and Tactics,” I said. “Okay?” “No problem. That’s fine,” Davis said. And that was how SWAT was born."
Going 5Ghz is definitely a step in the right direction. Not only does it provide greater bandwidth for more channels but the reduced range actually helps avoid interference.

The downside is that you might need more access points to achieve equivalent coverage. Forming a mesh, like these Google APs do, is useful for avoiding additional wiring.

The beam-forming features present in 802.11n and 802.11ac also help reduce interference.
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^ Not an actual quote.
> Most people aren't drawn to VR.
That's an interesting observation, especially from a Vive owner. From my limited experiences, everyone I showed Vive to was blown away by it (demo ranges from teenagers to non-techie adults), and definitely wanted to use it more, the only problems for them to have one of their own immediately are 1) price point, 2) setup complexity. On the contrary, Cardboard users responses were lukewarm in general.

Regarding VR for the mass, I see it as a new content consumption platform, the fact that it's mostly for games right now doesn't mean it'll stay in that way. Isn't introducing/promoting VR for the mass exactly what Daydream is intended for? Otherwise I'm not sure why Google is interested in pushing a platform just for a niche market.
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If video conferencing wearing a VR headset, don't you necessarily lose the eye contact piece, seen as a key part of high end VC hardware/software?
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