skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the contrary. This is superficial sanity, planting necessary ideas into mass consciousness. You cannot touch China, they are important trading partners, despite facts that chinese intelligence is writing files at US defence contractors at speed of hard drives there. You cannot touch Germany, otherwise this will jeopardise transatlantic treaties. Blame Russia, it cannot do anything, anyway.
Without nukes I'm fairly confident that the US and Russian governments have their own hackers buried so deep in eachothers SCADA style systems they could wreak havoc if ordered to do so.

Think things like energy grids, dams, financial markets, etc.
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Most likely? Based on what?

The more probable reason in my eyes is that criminal Hillary is more likely to engage Russia in conflict.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-killed-by-drone-was-secre...
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Airports are actually pretty nice, when looking at them from above. The way their geometries are embedded into different landscapes is sometimes quite intriguing.
See https://airports.flopp.net/ for some random examples.
Oh, okay. I misunderstood you. I thought you were just being cynical about work in general.
> it's hard to do that

I'd say it's completely impossible to do that :)
> This is Atom's great failing: it's trying to do the emacs thing, but it doesn't treat all buffers uniformly

That's definitely a great failing, but I think it has two greater still: not being written in Lisp, and being written in JavaScript.

The former could be overcome (Alpha was an amazing editor for the Mac written in TCL), and after all there are plenty of great programmes not written in Lisp (emacs, for example, has a C core …).

But JavaScript‽ JavaScript: there's got to be a better way. JavaScript: warn your friends about it. JavaScript: dissatisfaction
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I seriously doubt that. I've know a few people that have worked for either party in a technical capacity and I've never heard anything impressive about opsec. In fact, during the '08 election Palin and several Republican lawmakers were the victims of phishing or similarly low hanging fruit variety attacks. Maybe they're just lucky this time around. Maybe the DNC has higher value info, maybe they hired a few unusually careless people. It will probably take awhile to gain any real insight.
The Putin/Trump friendship is largely invented by the media. For example when Putin supposedly called Trump 'brilliant' he used a Russian term that means 'bright colorful personality' not intelligent. Our media knows this but ran with the illusion of Putin admiring Trump because it serves domestic political talking points. Trump's whole platform of America First(tm) populist rhetoric would be detrimental to any agenda Russia has.

It seems to me that embarassing leaks are best distracted away from the political news cycle by manufacturing a sexy story about Russian interference instead of trying to spin the content of the leaks themselves.
In modern use, "agile" means little more than "not waterfall".

As such, it's hard to tell if agile works because sprinkling even a little bit of agile dust on a project means it's "agile."

Then again, I come from a RAD background, and I don't like how the rich description of different models and approaches, like what Steve McConnell described in "Rapid Development", had mostly devolved into a more ambiguous "agile."

On a bit of a tangent, I came across papers from industrial process management that made a similar complaint about Toyota's continuous improvement method. Quoting from the introduction to http://freyssenet.com/?q=node/748 :

> With this book I hope we are able to show that Toyotism or ‘lean production’ as presented in the bestseller The Machine that Changed the World by Womack, Jones and Rose (1991), is not, as they seem to claim, the only possible industrial organization of the future.

http://www.design4change.com/LinkedDocuments/Torslanda%20to%... calls it a "humanistic alternative" and "Socio-technical", and "Reflective production".

Do these alternatives also apply to software development? Would they even better?

The agile software people I've talked to have never heard of these alternatives.
Ok but for real that last bit sounds fun to someone not in the field :)
I knew it :)
Looks like the PC/RT was AIX .. Yet another Unix. Perhaps my Xenix machine was just a standard PC then...
Different set of rules.
How would one even make genetically modified salt? The most you could do is to add additional genetically modified compounds to the salt, but salt in and of itself cannot be genetically modified.
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Let's make a Netflix
> Clapper isn't really a politician

No one who gets any position that requires Senate confirmation is "not really a politician" (and, yes, that includes general/flag officers in the military) -- they may be purely bureaucratic rather than electoral politicians, but they are politicians nonetheless.

But, yeah, I don't see a lot of evidence that Clapper is a Democratic (or other) partisan.
What sort of evidence do they have to back this? I've seen nothing discussed about that, anywhere.

The only thing they seem to go with is that Guccifer2.0 links to Russia.

To me this whole thing is based on nothing more than an educated guess.
Seem plausible Russia would be doing this. Russian media, which is controlled by the Kremlin, has made clear it is completely against Clinton, and for Trump.

We've got some Russian trollers here. Putin would like everyone to think he is just great, but he knows he can't do that. So he has his trollers tell everyone that all the Western countries are awful, so people will give up supporting anyone, and he will be free to go ahead unopposed.

The reality is that the West, for all its many faults, is 10 times better than Putin's Russia. Anyone who thinks otherwise is nuts.
Which is exactly what makes an A/B test on age based on resume call-ins implausible.
What would be the point in telling the truth? There is no truth, no lies, just carefully crafted words to pursue political agendas. I fail to recognize any difference between carefully selected truth and a lie. They all are used to achieve the exact same thing.
I'm a big fan of the smart replies in Allo and Inbox so this was a fun read. I did something similar in grad school where I and some other students manually labeled a handful of sentences and then used graph-based semi-supervised learning to label the rest for the purposes of using it as a training dataset. It would be neat to hear what technology they used for the graph-based learning; perhaps Cayley? We used Python's igraph at the time but it was pretty slow. It would also be interesting to try this in Neo4j.
Those evil Russians, and poor poor Debbie who dun notting wrong.... Except illegally conspiring against Bernie and thus having to step down. The article say she was "embarrassed" into stepping down. This article is clearly not biased at all.
Wikileaks founder Assange reveals his next target: Google
>Read about how the Clinton server was "secured" (hint: comically). Read about how the DNC has been getting hacked: very simple phishing scams. Everything about the DNC screams shoddy.

The worst thing is that you tend to get blamed for "victim-blaming" when you point this sort of thing out. No one ever wants to admit that they should have paid attention to security instead of jury-rigging things together incompetently.

People like to make analogies to hackers being street-robbers attacking interesting-looking defenseless people. If you suggest that people should have secured their infrastructure better, they look at you like you suggested that people walk around on the street with body armor. No! Most hacks you hear about are like if a bank kept everyone's money in a pile in the corner of the front lobby and insisted on an honor code to make people stay away from the pile. Yes, the thief that takes something from the pile committed a crime, but that bank was incompetent in securing what their consumers trusted to them and has a great share of the blame.
It would be counter-productive to escalate this issue in the cyberwarfare arena. We'd just do what we always do, punish them financially with sanctions and by continuing to push fracking so that the price of oil stays low.
"Neoconservative" is often described as "liberals with guns". In the US the word "liberal" does not mean laissez faire oriented, it means leaning toward statism.

Neoconservatives are typically of the opinion that the US can effectively intervene in foreign politics through the use of force, and they view such intervention through a moralistic lens. They typically attempt to justify interventions by using typically progressive causes such as "freeing women from oppression under Saddam's rule" or preventing other illiberal practices from happening.

While the circumstances used to justify military action are sometimes true, the defining characteristic of the neoconservative view is that the US should be actively promoting "democracy", "freedom", "women's rights", etc. all around the world.

When it comes down to it, these things are typically used as an excuse for the US to destroy lots of infrastructure, kill lots of people, and attempt to enact regime change.

Some notable examples of neoconservative intervention are the US invasion of Iraq and the US invasion of Libya.

What's interesting is the way that highly politicized statements about other countries, their customs, and their leaders are taken seriously in the US. At this point, most American support a neoconservative view of the proper US role in world affairs, and the moral high ground the US has with which to judge foreign situations.

Statements made advocating a neoconservative approach to world affairs must be political (and persuasive) in nature, because unlike the traditional causes for war (invasion, invasion of neighboring territory, etc.) without quite a lot of convincing it would not be apparent that intervention would be helpful or the alleged outcome possible simply by projecting force.
MSFT did this as well (at least for my hiring) and I found it to be negative, largely due to many reorgs shortly after hiring/being in a side of the company only peripherally related to what information I had going in. (ended up making friends on the team I'm still getting coffee with even today and the team ended up turning out fine from a career/productivity standpoint, but I likely would have taken a competing offer at the time had I known the work I'd actually been doing)
Are news like this a sign everyone is worried Trump might win so they are pulling all stops?

What's next, Trump is a Russian agent planted years ago and now taking over the country.

> The denunciation, made by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security,

Don't know about others, but I don't really have much faith in the "Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security". Somehow they let the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... hack happen, they are obviously incompetent even to protect our govt's data. I simply don't trust their "expert" opinion.

It is also funny how there is not much talk about the things discovered in the email. All attention is drawn to the boogeyman. It mentions how Wasserman-Schultz was forced to resign. I think it could have gotten a bit more in depth into what was embarrassing there... but that would not be playing according to the script probably.
Ask HN: Why has open source only being relevant in the software inustry?
Why haven't other industries like car manufacturing, design, space exploration..had something similar to open source? giving design for free..etc.
duh it's google/facebook/etc...

If you are willing to make the fanatic choice; your the employee they want. They might be missing out on a lot of talent in the industry. But they do weed the candidates down to fanatics.
Please don't link to this one. It's a shameful plagiarism of http://www.recode.net/2016/10/5/13167726/assange-wikileaks-h...
DHS and DNI accuse Russia of hacking to interfere with US election
This is a very interesting program and I imagine there will be lots of applicants. So this leads to my question, how many fellows will be accepted to each session? Also, for those of us who see this as a life-changing opportunity, what would you suggest we do to improve our chances of getting accepted and successfully completing the program?
Thanks for the article. It was a very good read.
I think a lot of them are beautiful and comforting and enjoy my time spent in them, for the most part.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGYx6zUMmFj/

There's so much I like about the atmosphere. There's this sleepy peacefulness mixed with hurrying productivity that I love to watch. Stretches of quietness give way to an abundance of people, some happy, some professional, some weary, or a mix of all three in the families jostling about.

Heels clicking the ground and baggage wheels rumbling, some announcement of flights changing gates. People mumbling in foreign languages. I wish I could bottle the sounds.

Your phone doesn't work so you read your book non-stop. You get an accidental chance to remember what bad coffee is like. Dim expectations of plans (or longings for home) percolate all the while.

Maybe not perfectly pretty, conventionally, but if I had to pick a term "Airport Aesthetic" rings pretty true to me.
Yep, I'm aware of the Michigan study, and I don't find its conclusions compelling.

I don't think it's fair to say that it's "certainly" not true, as this study has not been reviewed and plenty of reasonable people believe that the evidence suggests a different conclusion. Here's a fairly straightforward critique of its methodology:

https://thinkprogress.org/no-flying-is-not-greener-than-driv...

In fact, can you name any other study which comes to the same conclusion as this one?
Thanks, I've started on a couple MOOCs but the ones that sound interesting end up being over my head,
"Ask someone with low self confidence to stand next to a white board and "implement" solutions to random problems, and he/she will freak out. At the same time, these people might very well excel in a more nurturing, friendly environment."

I don't think a company interviewing a candidate needs to be holding their hand during the interview process. I understand that someone might perform a lot worse when whiteboarding, but an interviewer should be taking that into account.
Thanks to fMRI and other brain scanning technologies, we now know that when we learn, our brains physically change. This fact is the basis for the claims of the "brain training" industry.

The reality is that our brains are constantly changing. I could memorize a thousand fart jokes and my brain would have changed. Does that make me more intelligent?

I think the "brain training" apps are only really good for older or other people who are at risk of dementia, or other cognitive diseases, and even then I'm pretty sure the science is out on most of that.
This is actually a myth - overqualified employees perform better and don't quit earlier:

https://hbr.org/2010/12/the-myth-of-the-overqualified-worker
Is there any transportation hub that can be categorized as pretty? Bus stations, train stations, whatever else has too much hustle-and-bustle to be categorized as pretty.
Do you know of any other group that meets at Symantec with as much of a high profile as SVLUG?

They would have at least considered the effect on SVLUG before making the decision. That much is clear.

Then it stands to reason that this is an action Symantec is taking at least willing to kick out SVLUG, if not explicitly or implicitly stating that as the primary reason.
Is your objection that the results were published in a book, where the authors can make some money from it?

No. My objection is based on the tone of the author's remarks (and yes, those are the quotes), in particular the use of inflammatory language, and the lack of acknowledgment of the obvious fact that bureaucrats are expected to value their own opinion above the general population, just as professors are expected to value their opinion over laymen. How many of the survey subjects do you think would agree with Ginsberg's assessment that they really think Americans are "stupid"?

I disagree with your rationalization of Ginsberg's remarks and find them ill-informed and unsupported, but for the record, that doesn't mean I think you're stupid.
Only PGE right now? Are you implementing Green Button Connect? How are you getting past the requirement for users to fill out CISR forms to allow 3rd party to manage data?
Poor D'agata: https://keegan.regaind.io/p/4ez2sHM5QDOT4nR6rzqU2g

and Autio: https://keegan.regaind.io/p/qzqjM1CPRxGtkL1GQ4KL0g

But I get it. It's a great tool for beginners to see their rookie faults and address the basics [1]before they can foray into more intermediate photography. And then break the basics [2] in order to know why breaking the rules work and sometimes don't.

Semi-related (to the optics/mechanics) is this tool[3]

[1]https://www.flickr.com/photos/msc72/3184463442

[2]https://www.flickr.com/groups/1271834@N25/

[3]http://camerasim.com/apps/original-camerasim/web/
Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Which promises a profitable day, as far as HN karma is concerned.
I find it kind of presumptuous when people on HN purport to know what kinds of places someone "wouldn't want to work at anyway". There's certainly a grain of truth to what you're saying, but often places that have otherwise decent work environments also have a particular flaw that doesn't rule them out as a good place to work.

Being able to truly take advantage of the job market requires that workers be:

1. Willing to relocate, the further you're willing to go the wider a net you can cast and the more leverage you have in negotiations.

2. Willing to hold out on many offers, waiting for the one you feel you deserve, even if it takes time to find it. This also gives you a lot of leverage at the negotiation table, and can't really be faked: you actually have to be fine with walking away.

Some developers want to stay near their family and existing social network. Some developers have big bills or debt and can't afford to wait for better offers. Some people live in cities where the tech community is super .NET based, or where salaries are way lower than the ones they hear about on HN, or where pretty much all the shops require a suit and tie and don't let you work from home. And some people just want to live a comfortable life focused around things other than work. And that's totally fine.

All of this isn't to say you shouldn't be on the lookout for better jobs and workplaces. If you're young, rootless and don't have much debt, you should totally drill the market for all it's worth, and there may be many people like that. And if you're truly miserable at your job, totally look for a new one, and consider whether you can accept temporary uncertainty in return for a better quality of life. However, these are complicated life decisions, and it feels kind of frivolous to unilaterally decide them based on one or a few pieces of criteria.

(Sorry for being harsh, this rant has been building steam for a while)
Yeah, those are all disappointing things. The hipsters are right. Not everything can get away with being good art. Some people don't "get it", and it ruins a good thing. There's a good reason people push back on homogenization. Plenty of run of the mill stuff already exists; something different and genuine is valuable.

But one shouldn't spend too much energy focusing on keeping things the same. We still have recordings of art when it was good (Burns of yore, I guess memories would have to suffice) Things change, and the new things have their own merits.

I will always object when people refer to Skrillex as Dubstep, but his stuff isn't that bad either, whatever it is. What I experienced this year at Burning Man was no doubt missing some of the magic from 10 years ago. I didn't fully "get it" though I did my best to fit in. But whatever it is today is also pretty damn impressive.
There have been many efforts to build state single-payer systems and they've all failed. Vermont got closest but couldn't find the money.

It's a big shift to the economy. Taking what's now a benefit for a huge chunk of workers and turning it into a tax of both businesses and individuals. It's not an easy thing to do, you have to adjust people's compensations to make up for it and lots of people will be unhappy with the change.
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That is an interesting angle. Part of my problem is that I work in a huge corporate company that has been around around a while so has quite a number of legacy systems. I am loathe to introduce new layers of complexity and that does sound like "never invented here" as you describe it.
I'm looking for something more quantitative.
No Diebold statement? They're still widely used and just as hackable.

No need to sway the public opinion by releasing troves of party emails if you can just directly hack the vote itself!
Yeah I have to agree. Maybe it's because I don't travel a lot, but it's like watching a big social experiment every time I go through.
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While there is a lot to get excited about with ML both as a consumer and as a software developer I can't help feeling a pang of sadness.

Big data and in this case the relationship (graph) between big data points are whats needed to make great ML/AI products. By nature the only companies that will ever have access to this data in a meaningful way are going to be larger companies: Google, Amazon, Apple, ect. Because of this I worry that small upstarts may never be able to compete on these type of products in a viable way as the requirements to build these features are so easily defensible by the larger incumbents.

I hope this is not the case but I'm getting less and less optimistic when I see articles like this.
I like them too for the same reasons (after I passed all the controls). And as a frequent flyer, I like to congratulate myself over my well-optimized routine!