skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's silly is saying oh, since I read some stuff online about how crappy the DNC security is, I should probably chalk it up to some unknown actor for some vauge hand-wavy reasons instead of taking the statements of the the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security at face value.

Why would they lie? What gives you reason to think they (not the DNC!) be that colossally stupid? Why would you do anything other than take allegations of yet another Kremlin attempt to interfere in fair elections as seriously as the people of Europe and Ukraine have learned, the hard way, that they must?
surely you both read the book
Not to detract from your argument, but most libertarians support either substantially scaling back or entirely eliminating IP law, including copyright law.

Internet piracy in general seems to be culturally quite left-libertarian.
Good times! I also remember going to many SFLUG events in my time there. Notable speakers included Linus - of course, and Hans Reiser.
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Because Putin is actually actively trying to get Trump elected? Most likely because he has enough dirt on him to manipulate him.
>>there'll be a standard DRM multimedia format whether it's "endorsed" by Open Web people or not

Open web people can not endorse DRM, once a open web persons endorses DRM they cease to be a Open Web Person.
Imagine you are a news outlet. You make money by creating articles that entice people to view your website. You make money to pay your expenses by having advertisements on your website.

DDoS = No Website. No Website = no users viewing ads. No users viewing ads = No income.

Yes, that typically resolves quickly. Depending on your hosting agreement, you may have to pay for all the excess bandwidth that the DDoS bots used.

Now imagine if you are a bank, users want to be able to access their accounts/funds/etc. How long would you remain with your bank if you frequently couldn't access your information because they were being DDoS'd.
Then managers tell their employees to watch a video to influence the trending status and it just becomes another internal propaganda tool. Seen it with internal like buttons and comment sections time and time again.
> You will never see it. The US never provides proof. Only "Intel sources say" and rumors.

That's not entirely true, though the only time the US Executive Branch will provide the backing for its intelligence conclusions is if it needs to in order to convince some other entity in order to motivate that entity to take action; the public is rarely an entity which it must approach this way (and, when it must approach Congress or US Courts, there are procedures to keep intelligence material from the public, which are often, but not always, used; some information may come out this way, though), and occasionally the public will also receive some of the evidence incidentally to the US government presentation to some other entity, like the UN Security Council.
At first glance I read "if it doesn't work you're not paying enough".
Snowden did no hacking.
> taking the statements of the the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security at face value

Frankly, it's hard to do that in a post-Snowden, post-Comey world.
>Why would they lie?

Are you joking? Do you not see the massive political motivation there?

And of course, the US government has a great track record with telling the truth about security issues.
> It costs you nothing

It costs me my network on Twitter. Where everyone already is.

> Personally I find the whole microblogging concept overhyped

That's great, but that's also irrelevant to what this is.
Is "Whites" pejorative? Is "Latinos" pejorative? Why is "<noun>" more pejorative than "<adjective> + people" ?
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It was a very basic "essay", only a few paragraphs if I remember right, answering an easy prompt. The goal was probably only to score technical writing ability while disguising it as a normal essay assignment - it wasn't revealed that what you wrote would be graded by an algorithm until afterwards.
"Decentralized", in computing, is pretty unambiguous. My Postgres database isn't "decentralized" because I run my own instance of Postgres. My Zookeeper cluster is "decentralized" because I can shoot nodes dead and the remaining ones will handle their business as far as continuing operation.
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Even if attribution of these attacks to Russia is correct, I think it is fair to say that such poorly concealed covert efforts would be Keystone Kops compared to the color revolutions. And no doubt were the US to promote a color revolution somewhere in the world today, cracking local systems would be part of that effort.
Those delights are so overpriced as to be insulting. Really hard to enjoy some scrambled eggs when they cost $13.
Then use your critical thinking.

I'll repeat the question:

> Why would they lie? What gives you reason to think they (not the DNC!) be that colossally stupid?
ISIS hackers were taken out with a drone strike last year.
You are correct a DDoS (Distributed Denial Of Service) is intended to take a target off line or simply slow down the target significantly (ideally making the service useless)

While it is very unlikely to cause hardware damage it can be extremely damaging to a company or service.

Service outages undermine customer trust and could drive users to your competitors. A company might also have a service level agreement with large financial costs associated with a service being down.

If you don't mind the service being down, then why have it? It going down will probably have some very negative effect.
Could you define your intended definition for the terms "neoliberal" and "neoconservative"? Unfortunately these are bandied about so often that their definitions are hazy to me and seem subjective, so I don't feel like I can really reason about what you're saying without having the terms defined.
Reminds me of wéi wú wéi, the mystical Daoist concept. It literally means "action without action". My favorite story that illustrates the concept is the anecdote about the skillful butcher in Zhuangzi:

Cook Ting was cutting up an ox for Lord Wen-hui. At every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every move of his feet, every thrust of his knee — zip! zoop! He slithered the knife along with a zing, and all was in perfect rhythm, as though he were performing the dance of the Mulberry Grove or keeping time to the Ching-shou music.

“Ah, this is marvelous!” said Lord Wen-hui. “Imagine skill reaching such heights!”

Cook Ting laid down his knife and replied, “What I care about is the Way, which goes beyond skill. When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years I no longer saw the whole ox. And now — now I go at it by spirit and don’t look with my eyes. Perception and understanding have come to a stop and spirit moves where it wants. I go along with the natural makeup, strike in the big hollows, guide the knife through the big openings, and following things as they are. So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon, much less a main joint.

“A good cook changes his knife once a year — because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month — because he hacks. I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there’s plenty of room — more than enough for the blade to play about it. That’s why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone.

“However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I’m doing, work very slowly, and move the knife with the greatest subtlety, until — flop! the whole thing comes apart like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground. I stand there holding the knife and look all around me, completely satisfied and reluctant to move on, and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.”

“Excellent!” said Lord Wen-hui. “I have heard the words of Cook Ting and learned how to care for life!”

(translation by Burton Watson, my particular favorite)
I'm still barely past the first set of multifactory stages in spacechem. Multithreading is hard.
What's the political motivation for the DNI to lie? Clapper isn't really a politician and as far as I know he's not affiliated with any party.
direct link, on the cartoonist's site:
http://www.laurenweinstein.com/#/genius-of-learning/
The one thing I like about Rust is the fact that you can easily expose a C-like interface for libraries, which allows you to contribute to old codebases without much of a problem, best of both worlds (It has a non-trivial cost when starting, sure, but so does keeping C++).
Да, мы единственно не смогли хакнуть трансгуманистов.
Do the Republicans have better operational security for some reason? Especially with these being simple phishing attacks (which are targeted by their nature) I don't think it's an unreasonable to say that these are targeted.
Of course I do, which is why I asked the 2nd question:

> What gives you reason to think they (not the DNC!) be that colossally stupid?

The political motivation is what would make lying here colossally stupid.
> Most likely because he has enough dirt on him to manipulate him.

Or, you know, doesn't want WWIII, like the rest of us.
In theory there is a difference, in practice - none. People would at least know what that is (and hence have no problem gauging bubblesort complexity), or you'd have blank stare back.

Just wonder what would you suggest as an alternative, if you need to confirm basic algorithms proficiency and understanding of big-O? You inevitably arrive to an algorithm question, and bubblesort is as good as any.
Am I the only one that likes airports? (Well, besides the annoying security theater.) Once you're in, you've got no other responsibilities besides showing up at a door at a specific time. You can't feel bad for not doing those other things you know you probably should be eventually doing, because you're busy in an airport! It's the one place I won't have any doubts at all about the way I'm spending my time when I sit around and read.

... Reading my post and considering my apparently-unique love for airports makes me wonder if I have some kind of anxiety issue.
But the coffee's bad, the shops, wifi, food, and drinks are overpriced and lack variety, the piano is off-limits, and nobody's rooted here long enough to invest energy in it as a place for community. What you describe would be great if it was good, but it's bad.
They are all at amazingly different levels of abstraction too. This game is probably my next buy. I have to admit I saw it yesterday and dismissed it as "some amateur is making Yet Another Programming Game that's going to be unbalanced and unfun" until I saw it was Zachtronics.
Likely, raising wages for computer jobs would lead to more people doing jobs, but it may also lead to lower quality.
Computer programmers try to have job security and delay or wait until deadlines to get things done. Giving them more money could make them more competitive or they may see more money and more security.
It's amazing how much of a difference there is in computer jobs and pay. There's also a chance that some jobs people just don't like and won't accept without a ridiculous amount of money. But then again, if no one wants to do it without a large sum, that may make the job worth the money.
Is there any evidence that that is due to sexism?
I would too, but consider what you are asking for. Text logs. Easily fakeable text logs. If they provided an excel spreadsheet with a bunch of Russian IPs on it, what do you really do with that? In this case they are just saying "look, you'll just have to trust us on this one.."

I firmly believe that in many of these attribution cases there is a lot of top secret source discovery methods they cannot mention, like sniffers on routers, or implants on the actual computer used to send the message.

EDIT: Additionally, it's pretty unlikely that you'd see a Russian IP address and be like "Oh Russia did it". Instead, NSA would have a list of IPs known to be compromised by Russian actors. If they shared that list with the public, it would not help clear things up for us, because we don't know the history of the traffic coming from that compromised box, it could be in another country and idiots would point and say "See! Not Russia!". And it would reveal to the Russians that we knew they owned that box. All bad things.
Yup. Just like being great at Chess just makes someone great at Chess, and not much more.

I taught my kids to play Chess early on. My first-born was beating 12 year old's when he was 6. They had to move him up the age groupings. I insisted they keep moving him up until he lost. Knowing how to deal with losing is very important.

In all cases I pulled my kids from competitive Chess after a few seasons and a good balance between winning and losing. Past a certain point, getting better at Chess requires becoming a human database engine. That, for me, is when Chess demonstrates this idea that getting better at some of these games teaches nothing useful.

BTW, I apply this to the type of programming puzzles typically used in interviews. It's pure nonsense that says nothing about how creative someone can be about solving new problems. Anyone can become a human database with enough effort. True creative intelligence is a quite a different matter.
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> Sturgeon's law is a response to somebody asking "how come most of X is crap, when that's not the case for Y?".

That's true but it's not the scenario posed. The scenario is not "why do most movies suck when most games don't?" It's "why do most movies suck now when they didn't years ago?"

These are related but different things. The "why does it suck now" stuff is nostalgia and romanticism, which is not what Sturgeon's law addresses. Sturgeon's law along with recency and forgetfulness lead to this nostalgic effect. But saying that Sturgeon's law is the same as nostalgia because it contributes is like saying radiation is the same as cancer because it contributes.

> The response is that most of Y was crap too, you're just remembering the good stuff.

Sturgeon's law was not phrased this way. It wasn't "you're remembering the good stuff" because it was addressing criticism of SciFi vs other contemporary genres. There was no question of remembering the good stuff. It was a question of sci-fi getting criticism that other genres simply didn't.

I get that you're trying to make X be "movies now" and Y be "movies then", but this is an awkward (mis)use.
Possibly GNUStep can help with the older APIs.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
> DIscrimination is still happening, but it's somewhere before you in the pipeline.

Not necessarily. Maybe men are just more likely to be interested in tech, spend time tinkering with computers as young boys, etc.
> The claim I replied to said preventing things like data races was done till well into the 80's

No, it definitely didn't: it said data races as a concept seemed to not be formalised until the late 80's.
Not senior devs (yet), take note of this post. Some excellent stuff here.

To OP: Forever will be curious about "why React" and "did you consider Turbolinks?"
Yes. you are correct. Since I was replying to someone who was in a bad environment, I was referring to that case.

> It's very possible to find places that are good to work at. It's highly unlikely for a shitty environment to get significantly better.

Yep.
None of that looks like a formalisation or even a description of a data race, at least not in the modern sense.
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I think the example is either naive or then contrived. There's probably some behavioral changes that go with the state of the connection in which case you'd be much better served by having a State interface and then implementations for different actual states.

For example:

class State { ... }; class Connected : public State { ... };

std::unique_ptr<State> state;
> There's no fully general solution yet?

The power of software is that you can create specific solutions. There are plenty of fully general solutions out there but they're not tuned to exact needs of the user. For that you need programmers and programming.

Things have actually gotten a lot better but, as the technology improves, so do the demands of users. I do a lot of CRUD but it's all highly specialized. An hour of my time coding a very customized way of shuffling data from database to the UI will save hundreds of people hundreds of hours.
I've heard the phrase "never invented here" syndrome, but that doesn't seem to be what you're getting at. That term refers to a kind of disfunction where people are so terrified to the NIH syndrome that they'll shoehorn into an existing application, no matter how much contortion is required, simply to avoid developing their own code base.
> Without spoofing, only the largest botnets can launch a successful DDoS attack. That's a big barrier to entry

In the days of Shodan, NO. Absolute no. 100/10 or 50/5 MBit/s household networking is becoming the norm in Germany, and other countries are way ahead of us Germans. Add in the fact that people with lots of (crappy) IoT devices are people who also have the money for high-speed internet connection...

Then throw in a couple of stro's at DCs with good interconnections, and you got yourself a niiiiiiiice huge botnet. You can do LOTS of damage if you get maybe ten or twenty servers with 10 GBit/s links under your control! (10 servers = 100 GBit/s, 10% of the Krebs attack IIRC)
> Actually this is a pretty clear sign of a state sponsored attack

So are you saying that the Russian government either unintentionally left a trail (IOCs) on the server, or intentionally left a trail because it wanted to be detected?

Or are you simply claiming that "Guccifer 2" is on the payroll of the Russian government?

(or some combination of the above)...
Based on other people's attempts to please it, I thought it would like this close-up of a snail I took. 9.4/10 and a ribbon so I guess we know what it likes! https://keegan.regaind.io/p/rUMLzUc5SO-aZUoZzz31Tg

On the other hand, it doesn't like the lighting or colors on this, and wants more bokeh. I'm willing to grant that the composition is dull, but the colors? https://keegan.regaind.io/p/pQ9U6CiMRKWNkYVgqLZTCQ

And again it complains about lighting, which is probably the last thing I would worry about on this one: https://keegan.regaind.io/p/-CC6phAPScux1CSYPqY24Q

And this one has the same light, and cleaner composition, but it still complains- I'm not sure what it thinks would improve it. "Bad composition" is not helpful advice here. https://keegan.regaind.io/p/6T6V3k8fRLSWMn2JT6-N4g

Meanwhile, it's weirdly positive about this digital monstrosity: https://keegan.regaind.io/p/Csyd3O6pRg6vra2hqumKOQ
Assange, for one. Of course she declined (did not recall) and suggested it might have been a "joke".

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
> What happened in the Ukraine, for example, almost certainly wasn't an organically grown domestic insurrection. That was nurtured by NGOs and foreign intelligence agencies.

And it happened twice I might add...

> and the US isn't going to stand by and watch Russia destroy the integrity of our elections

To be fair, exposing the corruption of one of the major parties isn't exactly going to 'destroy the integrity' of your political system. If anything he's doing you guys a favour.

Also, the US has been trying to manipulate elections in Russia for years. It hasn't worked yet because all the opposition to Putin are a bunch of clowns, and because enough Russians still remember the 90's.
> ... Reading my post and considering my apparently-unique love for airports makes me wonder if I have some kind of anxiety issue.

Yeah. This seems more like a reason for you to reflect and relax.

I've got anxiety issues of my own, but they tend to surface at the airport. Waiting at the gate is a perfect time to go through my mental checklist of what I packed, and await the realization that I've forgotten something critical (deodorant? socks? laptop adapter? to book a hotel?) or to look forward to everything that can go wrong during the trip (that airplane looks pretty old. Will I have time to visit with everyone I want to? Will I have to visit people I don't want to see? Will I get downtime to myself? What if I get sick while I'm there? What if I get sick right before I'm leaving?)
Although I don't agree with this poster, it seems odd that they're being downvoted.
There are a few related non-Zachtronics titles off the top of my head:

* Human Resource Machine

* Factorio

* Chromatic Supercomputer[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzfIqigXXh4
The open source project that has really stood out to me in terms of funding is vuejs.org who's funding is almost entirely public at https://www.patreon.com/evanyou

In the case of RethinkDB I wish they had started Horizon much sooner. Having plugins like for Stripe will make Horizon usable in the real world. I certainly like the goal set for Horizon that it be easy to extend a Horizon app by embedding it in a Node app. I just found the lack of step by step tutorial and several examples frustrating.

I've just started learning about business stuff. I've gone to three Seattle Lean Startup events. I've learned a lot. Two key things I've learned that are helping me are make a working engine before raising money so that money is just gas and focus on making something that people pay for.

Being involved in SMC I'm very glad that VC hasn't been taken. I'm not convinced that VC would make things much better.
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Bringing Burning Man's inspiration into real life is one of the great outcomes of the experience. It gives me and many people I know much greater confidence in being open, giving and playful toward friends and strangers in the real world when we get back. It's really neat to bring out moments of spontaneous interaction and smiles, i.e. simple moments of raw human connection, in interactions that would normally be met with people buried in their cell phones, avoiding eye contact, and basically doing anything possible to avoid having to acknowledge their fellow human beings.

There's another word for this that doesn't use phrases like "Burning Man" or "real life". That's: "community". My experience has been that it's harder to find and sustain enthusiastic community in the real world. When it happens it's of course great, but people in their day to day tend to be resistant to it. Temporary experience with a more open, enthusiastic, and non-judgmental community than you're normally used to can be an invigorating experience for some.
For the entire plane, the MPG is much lower. For each passenger, that's certainly not true [0]

It's the same for busses, boats, etc.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/04/debate-settled-flying-way-effi...
I'm from India and I strongly disagree. You are not supposed to have kids if you can't afford them.
It's also common in its verbal form "liquidate". As in, a "liquidation sale" or "liquidating some stock or options".
The thing that's interesting about airports is how diverse the criteria is for people critiquing them.

Take the parking you highlighted for example, unless someone is ranking it as a home airport AND they don't take uber/lyft to get there, it's completely irrelevant. I tend to enjoy layovers in LAX because I like their sky club, which is completely irrelevant to anyone not flying sky team.