skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not GP, but I share his general viewpoint. My response would be:

1. I do not believe he would actually be able to do this (like the wall). Thankfully, unlike other aspects of our government, our judiciary is generally functional and independent. I think what he is really saying here is something like this:

"HRC should have been indicted for the e-mails. The FBI director and AG are both Obama appointees. Bill Clinton was seen meeting with the AG very shortly before the decision was announced. There are many documented cases of lower-level officials being indicted for lesser mishandling of classified information. Based on all of this, it seems reasonable to propose that her exoneration was primarily a political decision, and was unjust. I'd like to correct that."

Not watertight, but a reasonable enough argument. In other words, I think he is saying that HRC should be in jail because he believes she performed a criminal act, not simply because she was his opponent.

2 & 3. My reading is that he is doing this, but not nearly as forcefully or frequently as the press implies he does. Furthermore, our elections can be and have been rigged in the past. There are numerous examples of this in the Democratic primaries this year. The real question is not whether both parties attempt to rig elections (they do: gerrymandering, voter ID laws, laws on criminal voting are all instances of this), but whether the rigging determines the election's outcome. Most people would say that it usually does not.

So if he argues, even pre-emptively, that the elections will be rigged, it is quite likely he will have a fact-based case to make that they are. It will be a much harder slog to convince anyone that the rigging was what prevented him from being elected, and I think he will not be successful in this if he tries.

I do not believe in criticizing people's statements based on consequentialist logic: i.e. "the things he is saying may or may not be true, but we should condemn them anyway because they are corrosive to democracy". My only real criterion for whether to accept or condemn statements is based on their truth or falsehood, or likelihood, or logic.
Switching companies as a Product Manager
I'm a Product manager at a large firm where my role (even after 2 years) is limited to making presentations and documentation. I want to switch to a company with more responsibilities and opportunities to learn. What should I do ?
Note the key phrase from that article 'led to speculation that...'

In any case, here's Assange himself discussing this exact thing recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6mARUrPtXk&feature=youtu.be...

Doesn't seem like much of a vendetta according to him.
My parents - especially my mother - was big on both the, "If you are going to do something, you should try to do it well" and "you should finish what you start".

Which led me to not starting some things. I'm still learning when some things are "good enough". I still have the drive to do things "correctly". Which is a real pain when you need to speak a foreign language because you moved!

Interestingly, however, I kind of embraced the opposite of "finish what you start" - to the horror of my mother, I'm sure. I tend to work on bits of projects at a time, especially with hobbies. The downside is that occasionally I have a half-finished project that never gets finished. The more I learn to work with it, however, the more I tend to simply have projects (especially art) in various stages of finishing, but they all get finished. Overall, I find my finished projects are better for it.
>Trump will spend four years running a campaign against the legitimacy of the 2016 election, and will probably have little trouble capturing the nomination in 2020.

I was hoping his nomination will serve as a wake-up call for the GOP. More specifically, I'm hoping they drop the strict requirement to pretend to be a fundamentalist Christian lunatic in order to have a real shot at running as a republican. We need more moderates from both major parties. Partisan politics are destroying us.
That comment was from CmdrTaco, the guy who ran Slashdot back then. So more significant than some internet rando.
I don't have a problem with copyright holders getting paid long after the work. Unlike patents, where I do have a problem, copyright doesn't prevent independent discovery. If you write a song, I think it's fair that you have creative and monetary control over that song for a fairly long period of time (though far shorter than the current legal frameworks provide for).

However, these type of common studio tricks look to my eye to have very little to do with copyright. They seem to be cases of just good old fashioned criminal and civil fraud. It's just that the fraud wouldn't work without copyright law behind the scenes.
Not merely accuse, but persisted in questioning him even after the black man's papers were shown. And this was no mere questioning, but peddling lies like the investigators Trump claimed to have sent to Hawaii who were finding things we wouldn't believe, without ever elaborating.

And not in five years did Trump ever talk about policy. He just accused the president of not being legitimate. Like many Republicans did, some directly, most by just staying silent. A handful rejected birtherism outright.

There's a reason why some 98% of black American will not be voting for Trump this year. And it's not their f'g imagination.
Often that's the case and in some countries you typically owe the whole value for the next 40 years when it's renewed. Of course it could be absorbed in the mortgage.
Yes, supporting somebody that is homophobic is equivalent to being homophobic himself. There are plenty of self-hating gay men out there, including Thiel.
like I said in the video, I admit it is not a replacement technique of SVG for icons, but it does have its niche use cases. When I prototype, or I need some simple icon that I want to animate when hover, CSS is easier. You can see a lot of hamburger icon out there are done by css. This is a reference so that someone else don't need to redraw the hambuger icon in css again and again.

Beyond that I have positioned it as an CSS learning tool. I spent more time making the web app than doing the icons, with angular.js, so that one can click on any icon and inspect and learn these css tricks within 10 mins or so. The easiest way to learn any programming language is to do a hands-on project, and I find cssicon is bite-sized project that give the learner some learning satisfaction within the ideal short time span. I hope this helps someone
Glad to see more going into this, but it's definitely not the end of this scam. My father just got hit, and they were calling him (he didn't answer because I told him not to) on Friday of last week.

This is an international scam, and multiple federal and state agencies in the US are looking into it, glad to hear other governments are too.
Do you believe that Islamic fundamentalists pose a threat? Their whole philosophy is quintessential intolerance. I suspect you are having a moment of cognitive dissonance. Nothing is as black and white as you proclaim.
The leak won't make those who support Clinton change their mind. Those hate her will feel vindicated. Those undecided will stay skeptical. In other words, it has done no harm.

If they are truly unbiased, they should release all the information they've got at once; or hold onto it until after the election; or also release other information they've got about Trump and other countries. Let the readers decide.

The fact that they release the emails in daily batches clearly shows they have an agenda and want to influence the outcome of the election. Which is fine, if that's what they aim for.
Nice to read this, being someone who uses lots of Microsoft products, but I have mixed feelings: after all these years Cortana still understands 0.0% of my native language (Dutch). Very disappointing, especially seeing that Google has no problems understanding Dutch.
You can only entertain such ridiculous thoughts because you live in a society that's not totally controlled by criminals. Try living in Mexico or Colombia and I bet you'd have a different opinion.
I've never been to France, but I'm not convinced.

I searched the internet for "taxis in France" and generally get the impression that "Rates in Paris are different from the rest of France. ... There are four main tariffs for taxis outside Paris."[1]

This[2] article claims a "nationwide protest against Uber", which would seem odd for, as you would have us believe, a nation without taxis.

1. http://www.expatfocus.com/expatriate-france-taxis
2. http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/25/8844649/french-taxi-driver...
> For all the crazy things Trump says, for all is egoism he has some very
> important points which needs to be addressed and discussed and he represents a
> group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years. A group
> who are themselves excluded from society. A group who experience their own
> form of discrimination by the likes of Marcos, me and everyone else who are
> benefitting from the progress of technology, globalization, taxation rules and
> so on.

You are exactly right, and this is something many of my current friends who are generally well-to-do and live in a highly progressive city are unaware of.

I grew up in the South, and I have friends and family who have very much ended up on the "have-not" side of the economic equation over the past couple of decades. The US today is a shittier place if you're anywhere near the bottom half of the income chart. If you grew up poor in a poor state and didn't happen to get a good education, our country doesn't know what to do with you.

We took away your low-knowledge-but-high-skills manufacturing jobs. Those got outsourced or automated away. The chronic pain you likely suffer from those back breaking jobs is even worse today. First your doctor got you hooked on Oxy, then that was taken away, so there's a real chance you're self-medicating with any of a cornucopia of drugs up to and including heroin and meth.

You don't have an employer to provide you healthcare, and you can't afford it on your own. You're sick, tired, and unemployed. And you didn't do anything to deserve it. You took the public education you were offerred and worked hard at the jobs you could find.

You're too poor to move away from your shithole town. You rely on your constellation of family and friends so you have no mobility. Even if you could move, your lack of service skills and the booming real estate market means you couldn't find a job in a big city that paid enough for you to survive.

These people are angry, and justifiably so. The wealthy and the urban progressives have reshaped the country to their benefit and left a lot of people behind. It's a great time to be a skilled service worker in a big city, and not a great time to be much else.

So I totally get where Trump supporters are coming from. If you listen to his rhetoric, he knows exactly the pain these people feel and speaks directly to them. I don't blame them for supporting him.

The problem is that he's full of shit and not a single thing he is promising them will come to pass, or is even a coherent proposal. The heartbreaking part of this election is not that people support Trump who is a raging asshole, but sadly that they believe he would even help them if he won.

This is basically a zero-win election for the poor in the US.
> Good, if none of them every operate at a deficit they are not pulling enough money out.

It is a death sentence for an organization to draw down its endowment. Please refer to the source I provided previously about the NYC Opera for an example.

> On average you should draw down an endowment so it's growth over 20 years is just below inflation letting new donations top it off.

It would be great if you could substantiate your claims. MIT provides a description of its endowment objectives [0] and provides the following formula for its distribution:

Distribution =
80% x (Distribution in Prior Year, Increased by Inflation)
+
20% x (5.1% x Market Value of Endowment)

Nowhere in their endowment spending policy do I see any reference to factoring donations into their decisions about drawing from the endowment.

> Your model of indefinite investment fails the societal instability test

I searched for "societal instability test" Google returned 'No results found for "societal instability test"'. Although it's convenient to fabricate evidence for claims, doing so does not actually make the claims true.

> There are no fortunes from even just 3,000 years ago because institutions are not stable.

Again, a cursory search [1] seems to contradict your claims that institutions are inherently unstable. While The Kongo Gumi Company is not quite 3000 years old, clearly institutional longevity is possible.

> Further, people may not exist in even 100 years so investing for the ultra long term is a mistake.

By that line of reason, people may not exist in even 100 hours, so investing for any period of time is a mistake. However, I assume you're not spending any money you have as soon as you acquire it.

[0] http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/205/alexander_herring.html

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-oldest-institution-organiz...
"Mickey Mouse collective" is a term I use for the pro-copyright-extension lobby. But yes, you're right that Mickey Mouse will probably never be a usable character.
here in California there are people even in the woods.
Is criticizing someone who plans to jail his political opponent also suppressing him too?

Why should we suppose there is any other agenda than what he says it is?

>he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years

He _appeals_ to that group but what he has said does not indicate any serious intention to benefit it.

An utter disinterest in the details of how to bring it about such a benefit and a near total focus on blame shifting to vulnerable groups and conspiracy theories makes it painfully clear this is merely a self interested demagogue.

This is very deeply regrettable because the group he appeals to does in fact need help. But as has happened repeatedly historical, they have instead been lured in by an aggressively anti-democracy demagogue.
I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it right, there's definitely something lost in transmission here.

We are keying the hash (HMAC), keyed by a value derived from the data pool. Please don't take the 4 line pseudo-code too literally.

The value stored in the database (Hash2) can only be used to verify a password if you can also complete the blind hash which is blinded by the data pool.

I can say, this approach has been vetted by both well known cryptographers (Solar Designer, Scoob) as Passwords^15 as well as industry crypto wonks at MITRE and elsewhere. It's certainly not snake oil.

The salt kept on the site's server means that the site must be breached in order for a successful attack to be mounted. It's why we call this a fully additive layer of security. You need the Salt from the site, and the entire data pool from us, to mount an offline attack.

2) Why would you say that? It's absolutely not the case that you can login with Hash1 and Salt2.

If you intercept Hash1 and Salt2 then you may know Hash2 but you still cannot login, and you cannot try to crack it without Salt1. Again, this is all assuming TLS is broken in which case you can just inject your own JavaScript onto the page and steal passwords in clear text.

By direct peering I mean programs such as AWS DirectConnect which gives us 10Gbps on their network and private IP access to our peers. Nothing to get too excited about.

I'll be back online in about an hour if this still doesn't answer the basic questions around the security of the construct.

EDIT: I do not mean to say solardiz or sc00bz have personally endorsed our product. Only that we have all worked on and published write ups on the same general approach (using large data pools with bounded network links) to solve the password security problem.
Glib maybe, but I'm really glad to hear there are people who are equally discerning of Moore. I know plenty of people who aren't.
Voting for a third party presidential candidate does not count as "doing anything".
They didn't.
I view technical interviews that require algorithm solving and coding on a whiteboard as ridiculous. Primarily, because I am deathly afraid of them.

And here is why. I own and operate two online businesses in the Radio Communications space that are the de-facto standards for our industry. I've coded both of them from the ground up in PHP/MySQL and manage all the day to day administration of these sites. Our infrastructure is deployed on 20+ servers on AWS, Google Cloud, and some bare metal deployments, for which I manage solely by myself. We have 100's of TB of audio archive storage that is all developed and managed by myself. I've personally tackled the entire stack from the ground up, end to end. I've hired an outside consultant, once, to do graphic design work. I've taught myself titanium accelerator and released a highly successful mobile app for my business for Android and iOS. I've even deployed much of our API using NodeJS! Gasp! I do all security, SEO, sysadmin, scheduling, upgrades, marketing etc.

But I'm not a computer scientist. If you asked me to outline a best-case sorting algorithm for x use case my response would be "uhhh... " If you asked me to write out a for loop in PHP on a whiteboard I'd say to myself "uh... where do the semicolons go again?" But I can piece together building blocks from AWS, Stack Overflow, open source projects, multiple SAAS providers. I can also write contracts, executive license agreements with third-parties, develop highly successful and consumable APIs, and manage the financials for a multi-million dollar business. I've also deployed multiple APIs in SOAP, XML, and JSON which form the most successful parts of my business

But get me up in front of a technical interview team where the startup is looking for a computer scientist and I'll have a ton of "yea, but..." and probably wouldn't last too long.

So when I see these examples of technical interviews in organizations where I know I could add value, but realize their process for evaluating that value could certainly eliminate me very early, that scares the crap out of me. Fortunately, my business has been successful enough that this will never be a scenario I have to face. It still bothers me though.
TIL there are no flights between BWI and Dallas in January.

Maybe it's load but as others have said it doesn't seem to be returning complete (or in my case, any) data.
The Nazi party had a left wing well until just before Hitler was appointed chancellor, when it started causing problems for the man and he had it purged. (A lot of the leaders of this wing of the party were killed in the Night Of The Long Knives.)

Source: I read a biography on Hitler, but I don't have time to go track down the exact citations/references. This page might be a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Strasser
Why? Without that money, what's the incentive to blow the whistle? Not to mention that most whistleblowers are blacklisted, so they have a difficult time finding work after doing so. If they don't get that money, they'll likely end up under a bridge somewhere.
MemSQL is commercially licensed to do our best to stay in business and keep innovating.
For what it's worth Harry Shearer has a pretty fearsome reputation in the business for being a hardass, about a year ago or so he ended up in a heated public dispute re his contract with the Simpsons, and he's had some pretty high profile feuds with collaborators over the years.

Just an interesting footnote, I'm not sure that should do anything to diminish his side in this dispute, which seems like a pretty reasonable one.
Performance cost using std::move vs. using a pointer to the thread in c++?
Yeah, it left me reeling. Some sacred cows were slain for sure :D
> I'm not a fan of people getting paid for copyrighted works decades after the work was created

Can you explain why exactly?

John August (screenwriter/blogger) wrote about this extensively and his argument (when it comes to the film industry) is very simple: Most writers (and by extension actors, etc.) aren't stars or even semi-famous. They get very few new projects produced and rely on residuals to provide income in between new projects. Without residuals, screenwriting would only be accessible to those who are already wealthy.
The parallels with what happened a while ago in Europe are interesting.

That particular fire's cause was never 100% cleared up, a false flag operation was suspected but never proven. But by 1939 it didn't matter anymore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
sigh

Just a coincidence Trump continues to accuse the Central Park teenagers of a murder for which they were acquited long ago.

Just a coincidence Trump supports "stop and frisk", even though it has been shown to be applied disproportionately to African Americans.

Just a coincidence Trump said a Mexican judge could not fairly adjudicate his case because he was Mexican.

I could go on and on and on until my fingers got tired typing.

Racist objectively applies to Donald Trump, its just what the word means.
> Should all views be accepted as equally valid?

Whether a view is valid or not is irrelevant. Who's the judge for validity anyway? And you don't have to accept certain views you don't like. The problem is when you want to suppress views you don't like, to the extent of oppression.
Assange has stated publicly his desire to help Trump win the election.
White Boarding – Learning to Think with Your Hands
I'd do it for a cool million, possibly less. There's plenty of places around the US, let alone the world, where returns around $50,000 yearly or less would provide a comfortable life. Add the ability to supplement that with whatever work you care to perform and you can be more than comfortable.

EDIT: On further thought, I'd go for much less, I think. It's really just a comparison the money offered against A) the amount I'd expect to earn in those 3 years, B) expected loss of lifetime income due to the time lost and/or resulting stigmas, and C) personal discomfort/inconvenience of the lockup time.

Hard to figure the latter two, but I expect even half a million would tip the balance in my case.
That's a strange reasoning. Just because they haven't leaked any false information there can't be any criticism? Sounds like a false dichotomy to me.
His way of teaching is quite different from many others.
From a Silicon Valley perspective, I didn't even know that this was something that companies considered not doing. 'Round here, a technical interview is guaranteed, it's more a question of if/when there will be anything else involved in the interview. Also, will it be a mundane technical interview, or more like 6+ hours doing Top-Coder style questions on a whiteboard? It used to be only Microsoft and Google were known for that but now it's practically everyone as far as I can tell.
+1 for the criticism of mainstream media - it is awful and apparently getting worse quickly.

I sometimes have to turn to foreign news like Russia Times (RT), Al Jazeera, and the Israeli Haaretz news (and news from many other countries) to see news stories that are effectively blocked out in the USA. I do look with appropriate scepticism at all foreign and domestic news sources, but when major stories are not covered in domestic news sources there is no choice but to look around the web.

It drives me a little crazy when friends who watch MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, etc. think that they are getting a full and accurate picture of world events.
Last time everybody checked, China's population was still around a billion or so. Migration is a natural process. Chinese migration is bigger because their population and the amount of wealth that population has been able to achieve is just bigger. Therefore their mobility is just bigger. they are not moving exclusively to the USA.

Last time everybody checked, the US middle class was sliding into poverty.

But you're uncomfortable talking about subjects that paint the USA in an unfavorable light.