skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each power has its own norms for network exploitation operations, and thinks their own model is the only "right" one.

1. United States, FVEY, Germany model: exfiltrate the maximum amount of information from foreign governments and an expedient amount of information from SOEs to satisfy unlimited desire of information by decision makers in government. Occasionally throw a bone to domestic business but only via government trade negotiators. Perform offensive actions only in warfare or warfare-like situations. Leave coups, election manipulation, etc to HUMINT and military action only.

2. China (pre-2016) model: exfiltrate the maximum amount of information from companies and an expedient amount of information from foreign governments, to provide commercial information to satisfy unlimited desire of information by domestic businesses and SOEs and to satisfy limited desire of information by decision makers in government.

3. China (2016) model (ostensibly with the new treaty): exfiltrate an expedient amount of information from foreign governments.

4. France model: exfiltrate an expedient amount of information from companies and foreign governments to satisfy desire of information by domestic businesses and decision makers in government.

5. Russia (pre-2016) model: exfiltrate an expedient amount of information from foreign governments. Perform offensive actions only in warfare or warfare-like situations.

6. Russia (2016) model: exfiltrate an expedient amount of information from foreign governments. Perform destructive actions only in warfare or warfare-like situations. Perform election manipulation via network exploitation in addition to HUMINT and military action!

I think the "complaining" is an apt description of what's going on. However, complaining is a legitimate reaction to having one's elections tampered with. Iran has a legitimate complaint to the US's meddling in its affairs in the 1950s.

Pres. Obama clearly sees a cyber treaty as a priority, as the US is in the process of negotiations with China. Russia should follow.

I agree that complaining by itself isn't productive. Escalation would also be bad. Norms established by treaties appear to be the only effective method. It mostly put an end to the great powers using chemical weapons.
I wish there was a way for Feedly to update its headlines when articles get updated... is this a problem with RSS in general or are they just lazy about it?
Trump reminds me of Kaiser Wilhelm.. Good luck America!
There is a student competition in Germany for self-driving RC cars called Carolo Cup, taking place every year since 2008:

https://wiki.ifr.ing.tu-bs.de/carolocup/news

It requires navigating a track without prior map information, including stopping at intersections, dealing with obstacles and parallel parking.

Here is a snippet from the 2016 competition: https://youtu.be/MQTc22Jetl8?t=10644

Obstacle run at:
https://youtu.be/MQTc22Jetl8?t=10885
It is not the argument that the DNC was so secure that only Russia could have owned it up. Literally nobody thinks that. Everyone agrees the DNC's security was comical.

The problem for Russia skeptics is that as easy as it was to own up the DNC, it is in fact very difficult to own it up in a way that points a finger back to Russia, because the "finger" in this case is a collection of IOCs forensically taken from previous attacks that are in most cases known only to law enforcement and to a few very reputable attribution firms.
Pretty much anybody can appreciate that, right? Not just the "deep thinking people"?
How Women Are Disadvantaged in Salary Negotiations
Ask HN: Do entry-level jobs w/o experience even exist in startups?
Just wondering, from my past experiences job hunting I know entry-level positions that don't need any prior experience are extremely hard to come by outside of programming jobs (say biz dev or bio research). Is the same true in the start-up job market?
But this isn't about tech, this is about people reporting to the chief marketing officer Maybe women are more likely to be interested in that, no? Every stereotype of gender roles would favor 80% women there to 80% men there.
No true Scotsman, in other words.
I think it should have been vice-versa, since this is the primary source, not a secondary source.
Yay I got a ribbon

https://keegan.regaind.io/p/GBjTf_wVRPGsY8A7fmNw6w
At some point in the future, we'll have self-driving RC cars doing Google Street View cars' work. Like 99% of the world isn't car accessible but is totally RC car accessible. Isn't this actually kind of possible now? Or what exactly are we missing?

Apparently Google Street View had 20 PB of data in 2012. It's probably like 50 PB these days. I'm not sure how much data it could take to map out the whole world.
I've never seen a rewrite or next generation of any program or function called "common". But new is common: ntalkd -- new talkd; nvi -- new vi; nftw -- new version of the ftw POSIX function (file tree walk); ncurses -- new curses; ncal -- new cal program; nawk -- new awk, ...

Basically Lutz calling his project NewLisp is a form of trolling.
No time like the present- this month we're hosting an Octo game jam!

http://www.awfuljams.com/octojam-iii
We could build software to help people collect their own data, and make it easier to do things with that information (combination of education, motivation, complementary tools, etc).
For ddos attribution, you generally only need a very small sample rate, and only headers. You might be able to use that against tor connections, but only when you're very lucky.
EDIT: I'm not trying to bag on them, I just think they need to work on their messaging if they want to be effective:

That website seems about as in touch with people not of the same mindset as the back pages of norml's website (once you got past the parts written by a pr person). It's got a rotating banner to "cancel netflix" which links to a 2013 post about how netflix will make you use only certain browsers. Makes the site either seem disused... or "tinfoil" as I think most consumers love netflix.

(note I only used norml as an example because their site used to (and may still be) well articulated argument on the front which quickly devolves into what many people would see as weakly argued reasons for letting me get high. it's why, in any movement, you put your articulate people out front even if they're not the real driver).
The article you linked makes the claim "not all trips are equal" and points out that some trips (e.g. local commutes) give driving a distinct edge. The trip between LA and SF falls on the opposite end of the spectrum, pulling the average trip toward being more flying friendly, especially if you can avoid driving to and from the airport, than your driving solo.

I agree the original article isn't great, but the one you offered is equally insubstantial. It shouldn't be shocking to find the trip type impacts the energy use.
Mylan to Pay $465M in EpiPen Settlement
It is an "or" thing. It can be completely free and open like PostgreSQL or it should have Oracle behind it.

OSes are a bit like that. Either a multi-billion dollar company like Apple or Microsoft behind it or it is completely open.
I was at the Free the Lizard party - what a blast. I remember Google speaking there - I won a pair of boxer briefs, with a strategically placed "I'm feeling lucky" printed on them - I still wear them.

I left the Valley in 2005.
The scientific publishing workflow is insane, and this tool seems like it could help.

In the biomedical sciences (or any field that ends up on PubMed), articles have to be converted to JATS XML (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/), a standard XML dialect for journal articles. It builds in citation metadata, cross-referencing, figure references, etc., and is supposed to be a stable archival format for long-term storage of articles. Individual publishers (PLOS, BMC, etc.) build their entire publication workflows around JATS, so articles can be typeset into PDF or rendered to HTML, or delivered to e-reader apps or whatever. Since it's semantic XML, you can do bibliography mining, automatic reference following, extraction of figures, or whatever you might want to make reading or text-mining easier.

But articles are often written in Word, so there's a tremendous amount of work going into manually or semi-manually converting every manuscript to semantic XML from the Word soup it arrives as. Same goes for LaTeX: a few journals just publish LaTeXed PDFs directly, but big publishers like Elsevier and Springer have semi-automated processes for converting LaTeX to in-house formats so they can provide HTML versions of pages.

So, short version: an editor supporting JATS XML can support all the features you need in a scientific document, and can dramatically simplify the publication workflow and hopefully save a bunch of money. And hopefully open-access journals pass that savings on to users.

For users, it could mean better e-reading apps (so you don't have to zoom in on tiny fonts in a PDF on your iPad), better support for cross-referencing and figures than Word has, automated formatting (journals style the XML, so you don't have to do margin and layout crap), and a simpler submission process.
Support of signaling over MQTT landed into Janus WebRTC Gateway
> You cannot touch China [...] Blame Russia, it cannot do anything, anyway.

Except, you know, the US government has not only also blamed China for state-sponsored cyberattacks, but actually gone further and indicted specific members of the PLA for those attacks.
For your example, NoSQL is not likely to be replacing your internal database, or being used in place of an internal database software... it's in place of another vendor's database software. Trading one not invented here for another.

The opposite of not invented here would be a company that refuses to develop anything internally.
I've never seen that in any db I've worked with. If that's true, that's pretty huge.
An aside: I've come to the conclusion that 1) we end up in the same threads, and 2) we almost consistently agree on these issues.

> Civics courses would do well to train citizens not to believe their own states, not to believe major news outlets, and to otherwise vote when they feel they've come to be able to identify the discrete manipulative narratives coming from various political information warfare centers.

Never will this happen in public educational institutions. There is too much risk, and Civics courses generally glorify American history and then explain that the current electoral system works just the same as it did with the founding fathers, and that it has scaled miraculously with the country's population, demographics and wealth. A "realistic" Civics class would likely serve to alienate young voters, lead to yet more political apathy, or, in the case of the really angsty, lead to situations of civil unrest.
The CDM doesn't need to do any rendering, and interaction with the GPU can be limited to writing in a designated shared memory area.
This reminded me that Apple also had a UNIX adventure in the early '90s:

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
I see a _lot_ of comments here describing these email leaks as 'facts' or 'not necessarily Russian propaganda'; you've completely missed the narrative here, allow me to correct the record.

These emails were _illegally_ hacked! If you had a _shred_ of dignity you wouldn't even look at them. It should be illegal.

If you take any of the information contained in those emails as 'evidence of wrong-doing' you're only playing right into Russia hands.

This kind of deplorable meddling in another nation's election by leaking 'actual emails' is exactly what we need to be vigilant of.

Such blatant targeting of the most transparent administration in history demands recourse!
Hey Josh!

It's funny -- I was reading that in your voice even before I saw that it actually was you.
Very few game engines throttle other than to meet monitor refresh rate. I thought it was ridiculous to play visual novels that made my laptop heat up as well.
"In ordinary capitalism the rich get richer [...]".

Errr, not really? I mean, at a minimum you're making a somewhat controversial statement - lots of people (me included) wouldn't automatically agree that the rich get richer, especially if you're thinking "only" the rich get richer, which is what is implied by the comment above. (As evidence, see established companies that go bankrupt, and new startups which rise from nothing to become dominant players, much like Google itself, which has existed for a relatively brief period, or something like Uber).

So let's hope that data capitalism is like regular capitalism!
Smalltalk has had that since the early 1980s

That really depends on which Smalltalk you're talking about, I think. Various implementations really had different concurrency models. Some implementations used native OS threads. Others ran synchronously "inside the image" but spawned threads to interact with the OS.
Warning: Sales pitch masquerading as a technical talk.
Why didn't rethinkdb offer a paid scaleable hosted solution similar to Amazon RDS? Seems like a straightforward business model.
Unrelated to Lauren Weinstein, the privacy activist: https://lauren.vortex.com/
Mozilla themselves publish a DRM-free version. You have to go look for it, but it exists.
If you want to hear something similar from someone who achieved a very high level in chess, I'd highly recommend reading Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning.
Queue system? Care to elaborate.
my impression is that Smalltalk (and like most languages) does not put nearly as much effort into controlling mutability

VisualWorks got the ability to make certain objects immutable sometime in the early 2000's. The VM engineers were particularly proud of that one.
Updated link for the Frontend position: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/99646999
Is udp/chargen really a useful publically exposed protocol? Does it provide a benefit over tcp/chargen?

Most of the fine people running chargen servers seem to be running the server from Microsoft services for UNIX package which is configured to send giant fragmented responses, and then they have a firewall that drops the first fragment. Thanks a lot guys.
You weren't kidding. OP's profile:

> Working on Microsoft Azure iot

and this post is his only contribution.
Great book, would recommend it to anyone struggling with this question.
For Women in Tech, Bias Runs Deeper Than Most Think
I don't know how much more they can do when they're at the top of Github contributions [1]. At some point, you accept that their culture is probably different than 10+ years ago.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-open-source-...
Probably related to the just ended solitary confinement? https://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/prison-punishes-chel...

FYI: The boingboing link has no more content than this tweet https://twitter.com/SaveManning/status/784465289773580288
Not quite, it's more like a vegan recommending their favorite brand of bacon. They lose their vegan superpowers.
CenturyLink, Frontier Shares Jump After FCC Eases on Price Caps
Agreed, and we need the data equivalent of antitrust.
You chose to reply only to the final, weakest part of Tossrock's comment. Yes, you're quite right, dropping celebrity names isn't much of an argument. The rest of his comment seemed pretty bang-on to me. I'd be curious to know if you have any reply to "Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world?"

Whoever said "there's no event like Burning man on this planet" was a bit breathless, but going <<durr, try real life instead>> isn't much of a reply. If you want to start listing fallacies, I think what you have there is a false dichotomy.
The other problem that Clinton has is that her rhetoric is one of conflict, but when it comes to Russia the current administration is decidedly lacking in bite. So she's got to lean on the idea that Trump's "Putin is stronger than Obama" statement is dangerous, unpatriotic support for someone annexing countries and committing war crimes to paper over the fact that, well, it rather seems to be true given the way the US folds like paper whenever Putin annexes countries and commits war crimes.
Common Lisp was supposed to provide a "common" successor to the various Lisp platforms developed especially at MIT's project MAC, SAIL, and the Lisp machine vendors spun off from these.
So can anyone here from SVLUG confirm whether they have a new venue lined up? If not I can make some enquiries about possibilities in our facilities in South San Jose.
So basically, avoid all entertainment.
Keegan, AI-based image analysis that's on the front page of Hacker News right now, also liked the photo:

https://keegan.regaind.io/p/XlF3k_kKSMqjacY8minUhQ
I'm not entirely sure what your argument is here.

Yes, the Democrats servers may not have been well secured.

How does that affect the issue of whether or not the Russian state was responsible for the hacking or sought to influence the election?
> I really hope that we have better evidence than this.

That's not the evidence, its the conclusion. (And its a conclusion reached by private attribution firms and made public long before any official government statement, at least as to the methods part.)
OpenSSL supports ECC X25519 since august this year.

Apple uses 25519 for iCloud encryption as well as encrypting AirPlay and wireless communication with various accessories.

X25519 Is also supported in Chrome https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5682529109540864
The hypothesis that one's progress is directly proportional to the amount of pain experienced is actually a rather strange one and tends to be an expression of the just-world hypothesis, in which I absolutely do not believe.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the linked article doesn't really seem to present evidence for its claims, either.

The article brings up children, who are already known to have very variable IQ compared to the IQ of adults. From what I've seen, the evidence for IQ as such not being very fluid is more solid than for it being fluid. At the very least, the statement that anyone can increase their IQ would sound really strange in light of current research.

Furthermore, raising the IQ of disadvantaged children and then saying that means IQ is like the analogy in another comment where being able to take a broken car from 0 MPH to 100 MPH by fixing it implies you'd be able to take a Honda and make it run 100 MPH faster. It doesn't work that way. Consider that the average person gets no such help. The more intelligent ones often get negative help.

IQ, though, is not necessarily the same as intelligence, or even the ability to learn new information. I don't disagree with the advice the article suggests, and I think it has a high chance of raising one's intelligence, I'm just not sure if it would raise one's IQ. Given that we don't really know the relationship between IQ, g, and "intelligence" yet, even that claim is definitely suspect. There's nothing obvious about it, unless you sign up for the pain == progress hypothesis, which is the just-world hypothesis.

The greater danger is that we have convinced quite a few people that intelligence == IQ and not being able to raise one means you can't raise the other. I'm pretty sure my IQ hasn't risen one point for the past 6 years but I definitely feel more intelligent per the definition in the italicized paragraph.

And I think the point of brain exercises was specifically to raise the raw processing power of the brain without information aids, i.e., IQ.
NT 351 was a rock, I used it on desktop for a year or so and it never crashed. Compared to daily crashes on consumer Windows it was a revelation.
I pretty much agree. Honestly, even with the ready availability of rather low cost digital cameras, editing software, etc. it still takes a pretty decent budget to create something that really looks "professional." Certainly there are some indie/art films (perhaps especially documentaries) that stand out but most true low budget looks it and is probably hard to fully appreciate it outside of the smallish demographic that's into that kind of thing.
In most implementations, Smalltalk is compiled to bytecode, and uses late binding. It's usually run on a JIT.

how would it statically enforce the equivalent of Send and Sync constraints?

In some Smalltalks, normal execution is synchronous. Many of them also use read and write boundaries for various purposes. The former gives you Send and Sync constraints for free. The latter can be used in difficult edge cases. (Like when you're calling out to the OS.)
OREO taste test
"Check out Trump's rhetoric: he admires Putin, he clearly doesn't want war. Check out Clinton's rhetoric: conflict."

Trump is playing up the strong man role to the hilt. Clinton is playing up the strong woman role.

No matter how fond Trump is of another stereotypical strongman, do you really think that if he gets in to office and then tells Russia to get the fuck out of the Ukraine or Syria that he's going to take no for an answer?

Clinton will be much the same, except maybe not quite so batshit insane.

I'm afraid that no matter which candidate gets in to office, it's almost a certainty that there'll be war. We'll just be lucky if we scrape by without it turning nuclear.
Pretty neat attempt at a summary.

I feel you've understated the US investment in manipulating elections. Sentry Eagle's feeding information into HUMINT isn't without a commitment within HUMINT and CIA to work in the psychological and political domains.

I'm not sure I feel that your list is a list of the norms that each have put forward to establish. The US is closer to a representation of their proposed norms. The others are closer to a description of operations/dossiers.

It would be very interesting to read a report on proposed norms next to dossiers and strategic incentives for each country.

We fully agree that norms established by treaties is a nice path forward.
I already get notifications to install Silverlight on Netflix.
Yahoo's Government Email Scanner Was Actually a Secret Hacking Tool
You're probably not going to see any additional details. If you have an intelligence asset on the inside, revealing the source can jeopardize that asset. For example, if they say that the CIA is funding a vpn provider in Moldova that revealed in its logs that the source is Russia, well that wouldn't be appropriate to the continued monitoring effort. You've burned your asset.
It looks like they've placed an Editor's Note acknowledging the failure to credit Recode. But I agree it'd be great if a moderator could swap out the link.
Put another way: "there is no shortage of jobs, just a shortage at the salaries these devs feel entitled to. "
Very clear non-whites weren't welcome?

I'm going to have to ask for proof because it hasn't been 1961 for a very long time now. And Chatty is a very very long way from Vidor, Texas.
As I understand it (mostly from hearing Evan on various podcasts), it's essentially the simplicity of Angular 1 from a development perspective, with a React-like architecture.
Sad to see RethinkDB going this way, I think I'm one of its biggest users (see previous comments). Don't really want to switch away from it either
Why hasn't WikiLeaks released information on Donald Trump?
This is not quite right. They were pressured by managers to open fake accounts, fired for not making quotas if not, fired if they reported the practice, and then all fired once the government finds out and it blows up. Of course the senior management plays dumb and keeps their jobs.
My understanding is that one of its selling points is that it doesn't have to be a full framework. You can use it for views, create components, or use it as a full blown-framework.