skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily agree that Obama himself was fine with Wikileaks, but it's certainly true that many on the American left loved the leaks when they revealed ostensibly embarrassing details about things they do not support (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) and then suddenly got rather upset when the leaks revealed ostensibly embarrassing details about things they do support (Clinton). Of course the same could be said about many on the right.
Wait, what's the difference between a political act and political ACTivism?
The challenge of letting go for a founder who runs everything
If it gets too bad, though, you have the opposite, "no reward, no risk". Then things don't get created.

If I know that my idea will get sniped, I'm not going to put the time and effort into the design and the Kickstarter.
yes that 1st paragraph was enough for me.. the rest was a downer
Julian Assange is becoming nothing but a menace now.
Wikileaks has been releasing people's personal information in their leaks and Assange has an axe to grind with Clinton and is therefore releasing his leaks to influence the election.
All your theories rest on the assumption that someone deliberately and maliciously 'cut' his internet access. There's no evidence of that or even that his access has been 'cut', whatever that means.
My mistake. I thought it did support it, but apparently not anymore.
PSA: Do not visit the Donald subreddit if you want to stay sane.

The tinfoil hats run really hot there.
Yes, humor is forbidden in the halls of power. Joking about terrible things is something only commoners are allowed to do.
I see a lot of people repeating the claim that Clinton said that, but I've yet to see an actual source.
How one developer overcomes a learning disability by training his brain
Had you presented to the meetup before applying or only after you knew that you were accepted in the conference? Even having done a talk once is far better than most applications.
someone started a spaceneovim:
https://github.com/Tehnix/spaceneovim
https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/539oxk/spaceneovim/
it is in sublime 2, via the More Layouts plugin
The GOP may be divided on Trump but am sure there is private information that could help the HRC team. It doesn't have to be incriminating as planned strategy could be of value. Unsure how this is different from, say, an (american) football team playbook being revealed to the opponent.
Bandwidth is often not the limiting factor on mobile networks. AMP reduces the number of TCP connections your browser has to open (each of which requires 2 RTTs, and many of which will have HTTPS running over them which requires another one or two RTTs).

Take all those connections and introduce a 1-5% packet loss rate, and suddenly there's a very good chance that any given "page load" (really dozens of requests) takes perceptually "forever". That is what AMP helps with.
Google’s AMP reviewed as a developer
The problem is that open source is given away for free, and companies are exploiting that. It's estimated that open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram's $1B acquisition. But the open source developers got nothing.

The solution as I see it is Supported Source (https://supportedsource.org/)
Well if he wasn't the Wikileaks team would've said something.
He also has other people working for him which would be able to help him out with this.

And thanks for the downvote.
The dilemma here is this - make your own car or partner with a manufacturer.

Partnership means smaller profit margin in a very tight market. The Big 3 for example barely make any money when selling cars (as opposed to pickups) these days, so to get a reasonable margin the price would need to be jacked up...

Making your own - the barrier to entry in that industry is VERY high which the article kind of alludes to talking about how it's hard to find suppliers willing to sell small batches of parts etc. There's a reason there aren't that many auto manufacturers around, and the ones that are out there aren't exactly the kinds of revenue generating machines as apples and googles of the world.
Would not denial of communication be a form of imprisonment?
Incidentally, this is exactly what hollywood and other big publishers want. Supporting surveillance is a really cool way for them to take control of the web, undermine it even more and then reap profits without worrying about all those bills like SOPA or PIPA that never seem to pass. Hell, they don't even have to face a backlash anymore!

IMO, pushing bills for changes in laws or copyrighting is probably their second best bet. Their best bet is to push people away from the web -- like they succeeded with physical books by dumbing down ebooks as much as they could.
Look up the OSI standards. They were a horror to implement and use.

The telecom companies wanted those to be used instead of the US tcp/ip stack. They would have had much more control and could have been fat cats, taking a large piece of the slice.

Be damn happy they failed. :-)

A heterogeneous world is an advantage, it gets harder for oligopolies to charge at every gate.
Hah, there's a funny thought. You're right though, for every life form other than humans, the meltdown in Chernobyl has had happy results.

For them, exposure to radiation poisoning is better than exposure to humans.
>He obviously still has communications because he's out on the Internet claiming he has no Internet access.

Dead Man's Switch from another location that checks in.

An internet outage occurs and an internet post can be posted saying you are without internet, because you failed to "check in" and postpone the DMS. I refuse to state my opinion on the other matters. But it is possible to post via third parties in the event one is unable to post themselves.
Nope, since frankly, I wasn't giving them a chance before the incident. They had their heyday, but they are just another outrage press now. Their Boston Bombing cover was reprehensible. Its just another data point of a trend line.
> How can you tell if a piece of information is independently verified if you don't know the source?

By your reckoning no anonymous source can ever be credible. Some pretty interesting stuff has come out over the years from anonymous sources and turned out - retrospectively - to have been accurate and likely to have been a leak by an insider. Given that nobody is ever (Snowden excepted) to go on the record about an imminent operation from inside some government agency the only way such information could ever come out is through anonymous sources.

See also: watergate.
Newest Opera browser ships with integrated unlimited VPN access
He wasn't at the Fall iPhone event iirc...
How about John Siracusa?
"It's different for the media."

Oh CNN.

Proving that those who say the media thinks they're above the rest of us are right.
I find it weird that "only" 20% of the middle fifth will rise into the top fifth. Isn't 20% equal to one fifth and is pretty much expected? It feels like the Dilbert cartoon of the boss complaining that 40% of sick days being on Mondays and Fridays. I think the article is right overall but I'm wondering if anyone has some insight into why 20% is an unexpected number in the data.
Agreed, but tossaway's point hold some merit. If the people in this country aren't playing by the rules they've agreed to, it's going to be more difficult to get them to agree to new rules.
Thanks for these extra data. I hadn't been aware of these details at all. More please, anyone! It seems there is much merit here but we must have caution, because of the unusual arrangement of Booker's metaphorical marbles / spoons. I I have read in Private Eye about some of these stories, but hopefully here we might learn of others, and other journalists interested. Journalists from what used to be Exaro News may have investigated some of these too.

In any case source caution is also worthwhile. I welcome that more investigators and actors are interested in this.
The CIA is reportedly preparing for a major cyber attack against Russia
Have you looked? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
It's a huge problem in more restricted environments - e.g., investment banks. Admin access can be very hard to come by.
Ask HN: Any good alternative to AHK?
Got this little AHK script that got bigger overtime. It's a price checker tool for a game called Path of Exile:

https://github.com/thirdy/trademacro

Where it:

1. activates on clipboard copy event
2. parses clipboard data
3. do a POST request
4. web scrape the result
5. format and output into a tooltip

AHK is great bec:

1. Very easy to use, just like javascript, you only need a notepad and run it right away
2. It has solid support for defining hotkeys.
3. Easy tooltip, but it gets messy beyond simple ones.
4. Small runtime, a few megabytes. This is good since users are non-programmers who don't want installing stuff.
5. Easy for non-programmers to contribute since it's very simple for making macro scripts. Not a must, but good to have.

While AHK is okay, the code gets messy fast and hard to debug if you do not know all the language rules and best practices.

I would like to ask if there's something else I can go for? Have an easier life, statically typed, lots of compiler checks (in AHK, if you got something wrong, goodluck!).
And that's why, if you are investing in indices, it's important to continuously invest.
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Nice! I'll give it a spin.
If you want to ask companies about problems they're facing you'll need to learn sales. I've been a freelancer for 12 years and these books changed my life...

* How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox

* The Dollarization Discipline: How Smart Companies Create Customer Value...and Profit from It by Jeffrey J. Fox

* The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (And Why They Don't) by Sean D'Souza

* The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost your Sales by Dan S. Kennedy

* The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Mathew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Also watch a few Gary Vaynerchuck Keynotes and you'll get ideas on how to add value first, specifically read this blog post https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/working-for-free-the-debate/
> ... Fukushima, where zero people have died or gotten sick due to radiation

No one has died of outright first-order radiation poisoning, but it's a specious claim with respect to long term cancer rates since we lack the tools to pinpoint the cause of a cancer death.

Workers have received high does of radiation, and some models predict hundreds of future cancer deaths (but some models predict zero). Even if someone in the exposed population were to die, we would be very unlikely be able to say for sure if that death were due to 'natural' cancer or cancer induced by exposure to some substance leaked. That doesn't make the exposure or the technology safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
My underlying point is that work is not an end in itself. Reducing coerced work, be it political, social or economical coercion, means more time to follow whatever passions one has, even if some of those passions may be things that you consider unproductive. For others, that extra time could mean another Einstein instead of a patent clerk with a less lenient boss than were the case.
That's a very small and insignificant caveat. It's like saying that Linux is no good because there's this one distro (ChromeOS) that doesn't let you do anything.
Hitting dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org repeatedly for simple things is probably not nice. Is there an easy way to have a local alpine mirror?
The biggest challenges were being extremely energy efficient to get acceptable battery life out of a tiny battery, and being extremely data efficient to get acceptable costs from expensive cellular carriers.

I'd reword your first challenge as moving what had been theretofore a desktop OS onto a handheld device with acceptable performance/power consumption. Once that was done, it provided massive leverage for Apple over any of their competitors due to the maturity and flexibility of their toolchain, as well as a wealth of developers both inside and outside the company who could exploit it.
I'm talking about end result here, developing on Linux requires delving into stuff I don't really care about.
No, not that I've ever seen. Though they do have a habit of burying/flagging topics pertaining to the release of documents when they concern a particular party. First few times could be brushed off as coincidence but over the last few months topics from DCLeaks, Guccifer and Wikileaks have been targeted
Product Q&A with Ellen Chisa, VP Product at Lola, Former PM at Kickstarter
It's really just that Chris Cuomo has a law degree from Yale that apparently didn't teach him much about the law.
It doesn't need to be on a separate disk, just a separate partition. The reasoning is that this makes it really easy to change your distro without affecting your data: all your data is (or should be) in /home, with the possible exception of any databases or webservers you're running (which would mean you're running your PC more like a server, so this won't apply to typical desktop users). You can wipe out everything in your root partition but your data is safe and secure. Putting it on a totally separate disk makes it even more foolproof since you can just cut power to that disk and then there's no way for it to be affected by the system upgrade, but that's overkill IMO.
How do you think they get good returns?
Fix the education system the rest will follow.
This seems to be paraphrased. Is this the quote you meant?

"If you cannot win the battle it is better to withdrawal and think of another plan rather than losing."

I can find that in a google search, but not yours.
Google's Deep Mind Learns from Itself
OK whether it's a problem or not is definitely up for debate.

The bigger point here is that switching to Linux would not help those people either.
>humor is forbidden in the halls of power

By and large this is the professional standard people are held to in positions of power. So yes, dark humor is "forbidden".

Imagine a CEO "joking" about laying off 20% of the company work force in a downsizing. How would that go for employee moral? "I was obviously joking guys! You're all keeping your jobs!"

A good portion of the employees would be looking for work elsewhere. Because there is no way to be certain the CEO was "actually joking" about possibly laying them off.
Now compare against an energy technology that is not Coal.
Apple Kremlinology is a hobby of mine. I have seen a lot of little data points that support your hypothesis. Ive has a house in London, his family is in England. He brought in a major designer recently-a friend that was played off as a partner, but might well have been him naming his replacement. He does not appear in any keynotes, but does appear in videos- or used to. This is in decline as well. (which is good because he was getting stale. "we stripped it down to the essential of what is a [timepice/phone/car] and once you remove what's unnecessary blah blah".

I believe that a creative type like him has trouble operating under the demands of a corporation like Apple at that level, and that he did so for so long because his collaboration with Jobs was very intense and personal, and that this is not something he can have with Cook. Under Cook he is supposed to be the one who replaces Jobs in that role (while Cook is an execution guy.)

I believe he is participating and staying around only so long as necessary to get things ready for him to leave.

He's earned a retirement and some time to follow interesting design work that is not relevant to Apple's business.
... Which makes macOS on Apple hardware a great choice for developers who prefer to focus their efforts on their projects instead of their tools.

... Which is not the only valid approach, of course, but it is compelling to many.

... And the counterargument is that having homogeneous dev and deploy environments has great value. And I agree, but I deploy on FreeBSD, Solaris, and Linux; self-hosted, AWS, and colocated. So I have lots of RAM, virtual machines, staging environments, and a strong preference for low levels of dogma.
I think they've said in talks/presentations that the challenge they have with some stuff (like Borg) is that they can't really extract individual components. It's all too tightly coupled. It wouldn't be fair to ask them to open source their whole stack. The fact that they took the lessons learned and created Kubernetes or published papers on their technologies is more than enough.
Good list, I'd add one more which is look for conferences with "rookie tracks" for new speakers.

Some of the UK Infosec conferences now have these where they pair new speakers with experienced mentors who coach them leading up to the day.

It's a good way to get new people into the speaking pool in a friendly environment and from what I've seen can produce some great talks.
In this specific context I'd guess startx/xinit
Would they be willing to spare their precious time to talk for some time? They might not be directly aware of gravity of problem if people who face it directly are engineers, PM's. In that case, would it be wise to ask them to point to correct person to talk to?
Hillary said[0] that she didn't recall joking about it, but that if she did say it, it would have been a joke.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTht4G4yJs
yes please link me to an article that actually says that

:shows truepundit article:

seems flimsy, doesn't really contain any actual sources other than "sources said". can you cite any other articles that don't use truepundit as the source?

:crickets:

yes. one article on an arguably either satire or hard-right website is the source of all the "drone him" talk
I am old enough to know vim pretty well and I guess I do not need the e-book, but I just wanted to congratulate you for the landing page: clear design and better content. I just love the pitch "How do I quit this @#!?"
Respectable organizations don't copy text from unsourced articles, change the font to Courier to make it look like a cable, and then screenshot the result.

Why did Wikileaks feel the need to do this? Is it because they felt silly just linked to a completely unsourced story on a partisan rag?
The number of media members who think "Freedom of the Press" is about them is astounding.

It was about the printing press and the ability to print what you wanted and, just as importantly, not be forced to print the things you didn't.
Some allegations remain (the most serious ones, obviously) some have run out or are running out. It would make good sense to try to get those in before they expire.
Before everyone picks up their handy pitchforks and torches (too late?), in times like this I am reminded of Hanlon's razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I think that it is just one of those random down times that Virgin Media have on their super-fast optical internets. When this happens to me I curse my housemate for not paying the bill - why else would it be off for days at a time? Then it comes back on, unannounced with my housemate not to blame.

I guess that if you are living in a state of fear, expecting storm troopers through the door at any moment, then you could reasonably presume that the CIA are to blame for one's lack of wifi.

To be honest, I wish it was newsworthy when I spent a day or two offline. But it isn't.
Yes you are correct. As I mentioned elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725402), I made that statement under old information. I stand corrected.

But the larger point still stands about nuclear being the safest form of energy we have. Even the worst case scenario of 600 eventual deaths won't sway the numbers for nuclear very much.

My argument isn't that nuclear is 100% safe, I'm just asking for it to be honestly compared to the alternatives.
They already pay 3% to aliexpress marketplace anyway, just jack the price up 1-3% and if you submitted the design before the listing was created part of the money goes to you..

basically it would be a private patent system for the largest world wide marketplace
While Trump is pretty much acting like any other celebrity (which doesn't make what he's doing right), Clinton's brother secured a rare gold mining contract in Hati in exchange for US Aide to Hati. I'll leave you to do the Googling yourself so you believe me.
> This release contains one particularly anticipated feature: the ability to generate CommonJS modules with Scala.js! It also standardizes on Node.js as the default runner for all sbt projects.
Absolutely - rising income and upward mobility inequality are, in my opinion, a direct result of knowledge inequality.
Money can make a lot of problems go away, but it's still worth complaining about. Especially bad is to have computers get better and better while the user experience stays as laggy as ever. Then you can only improve things by being ahead of the curve, wasting really large amounts of money.
It has more up votes than comments, and has a ratio quite common with many of the existing front page stories...
> Demonstrate their power to kill at will and their willingness to do so.

As history has shown, you cut off the head of one state problem and then you have six problems. Be it Osama, Ulbricht or Assange. Two of those three problems could have been solved permanently by other means (decriminilization and thorough transparency, respectively). Dogma seems to rule our rulers.

Silencing Assange, by whatever means they choose, will most likely backfire.
Oh okay, I was confusing it with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet
it's a real risk when you're a conference organizer to take someone with no prior experience. I've seen quite a few talks where the abstract looked technically good, but unfortunately the delivery really didn't help the talk come over well.

As others have said, it's generally better to build up to a conference presentation through doing smaller events like user groups and maybe lightning or rookie track talks, before trying for a main track slot.
If it wasn't so grim I'd get my popcorn now. Unprovable, yet plausible claims on 4chan... thrilling
Thanks. Will give it a read :)
For the same performance/$ I doubt that
Delivered it deliberately in preparation for a submission (i.e. before we even submitted the talks but knowing full well that that would be the end goal). Both the talk and delivery were engineered with those audiences in mind, so we restricted recording and distribution of the talk at the prior OWASP meetup until after it was published at BH/DC.

It didn't go all that smoothly at DEF CON (which I'll freely attribute to us both being conference noobs), but it went pretty well overall, all things considered.

Don't know if we'll have anything interesting to talk about next year, but I'm looking forward to potentially doing it again.
I'm assuming this page doesn't resolve because vim is not for humans.
I guess you missed the part about how Sweden was going to interview him today and then magically Assange's lawyer wasn't available so they (Assange and the Ecuadorian embassy) postponed the interview a month.
I hope RethinkDB going out of business does not become the justification to go closed source. At Neo4j we open source both the community and enterprise edition ( https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/tree/3.1/enterprise ) but we ask you to pay for the enterprise edition with a commercial license. Most of the non-employee contributions to Neo4j are not made directly to the product but using extensions, and plugins.

We find people who start with community edition will eventually move to enterprise once they establish the value it brings...and then eventually they will pay for the enterprise license. Yes, we have tons of people using the enterprise edition without paying... and that's ok. They'll come around too eventually once they see the value.

If we can build a business going full open source, you can too. Don't let the commercial failure of RethinkDB scare you otherwise.