skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the WikiLeaks of Turkish emails that built and led up to the near successful coup of the Erdogan regime.

In any case, I definitely welcome leaks from other countries.

But I don't want those exclusively. As an American it's been repeatedly proven throughout my adult life that the US media does not perform due diligence in its role as the "fourth estate". The most important leaks for me are the ones providing transparency into my government. If there were leak sites for every government I would check the American leaks by far the most often.
Meanwhile, the high beef prices of the last few years, which as far as I know were due to an actual shortage, have gone back down. I'm glad, I was expecting they were going to stay at the higher prices forever.
That's three more than Elm has. (Founder has day job)
Multi-billion dollar class action suits, incoming...
They could just make flagging dual purpose. But flagged comments probably alert the admins. Maybe clicking the flag button could spawn a drop down but I think there might be an aversion to introducing complexity and impedance. Requiring multiple clicks and using drop down elements might be a departure from the deliberate simplicity.
Exactly. These are truly disturbing things that I'm still processing and am deeply troubled by.

In my opinion, the worst is the deliberate undermining of the Democratic party by HRC's loyal henchpeople to help HRC win the primary unfairly.

How can someone who doesn't respect the idea of a fair party primary respect the idea of the rule of law in general?
And this is exactly why I am currently migrating to fastmail...
Is the practical mechanism of ochlocracy that it's a democracy with sore winners?
Japan can have confidence in Trump as president, says Shinzo Abe
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles2/X0095_The...

>The Internet is a perfect reflection of the world at large. It has everything in it except homeless people and that's only because they can't afford the monthly hookup charge. The Internet is scary to people because it TRULY makes everyone equal. All the people who are invisible in the normal world (the world run by the rich and powerful), all those people you can dismiss on the street as powerless and harmless -- ALL THOSE PEOPLE are now in your face. You can feel their hot breath on the Internet.

>It's called "humanity."

---

Maybe you feel like comments have gotten too stupid or that too many people have backwards beliefs. Maybe you feel like that goes against the notion of a "progressive planet". But the way I see it you're absolutely wrong.
Price should be way below tar sands, if they were expected to break even then this will.
what do you think gave the collages more value than a playlist on something like spotify? i definitely think they felt more valuable, but cant place exactly why.
> "if this isn't helping my party it must be because you are against me" thinking trumps any logical thought.

Well put. Seemingly party loyalists are so blind to the idea that someone could actually care about principles (like transparency) that everything is a sinister plot against their faultless leader.
"This is classic red state governance."

Not everything in this world requires knee-jerk political name calling.
> to step back and acknowledge that you're being used by a foreign power?

No.

It is for people of America to acknowledge the wrongdoings of its Government and defend itself from internalizing that such overreaches from USG are unstoppable. Starting from inhuman torture of Chelsea Manning to outrageous house arrest (and cut-off) of Julian Assange in another country to landing a plane of another country's leader to capture Edward Snowden on basis of a "rumor" to millions of innocents put behind bars for life for petty or no crimes at all to meaningless killings of unarmed black people to pushing hackers to committing suicide (Aaron Schwartz) for no rhyme or reason.

Clearing you're doing a disservice to this nation by moving the real elephant out of the room.
NTFS tunneling is a hilarious feature.

To those who are not well versed in this:

This was a hack for 2 things that exist in the universe:

1. Apps that save their documents by "delete document, re-create document by the same name".

2. The fact that said apps (especially when you consider that they might be written for Win3.1 or DOS) could be accessing the documents by 8.3 names (eg. MICROS~1.TXT)

What ntfs.sys will do is: for some period of time after deleting a file, remember the "long filename" of a corresponding short name, and re-hydrate it when you re-create. So when you delete MICROS~1.TXT and create a new MICROS~1.TXT, ntfs.sys will remember that this file is also called "Microsoft.txt" and re-create that name.
For context a link to the homework (or similar) on the web would be good for those who haven't studied this stuff.
The article doesn't render on my browser for some reason. But what does that mean, "fake accounts"? Accounts made by computers?

If it's just people creating accounts under assumed names, well, that's not too surprising.
Where did 24 hours come from? This is insanely sensationalized.
> and yes, seedboxes are doing more than you in the "giving" aspect.

Are they? Surely after a certain point, adding more bandwidth to the network doesn't make a difference. If you add another fast seedbox, maybe some people could download an album 5 seconds faster, but that's only if they could pay the ratio for the album in the first place, which they might not be able to if they weren't a seedbox user themselves. I think what.cd had more than enough seedboxes and that it probably would have been more important to the community to upload new 100% FLAC rips or seed unpopular or poorly seeded torrents than to add another seedbox that just auto-snatched popular/2016 releases and freeleech torrents.

> I was an Elite member (100GB+ upload), without any seedbox, within 2 weeks.

Remember, not everyone has a good enough home internet connection to do this. Back-of-the-napkin calculations say, even if I spent the whole time uploading at full speed, my shitty 0.5 Mb/s connection would still take more than 2 weeks to upload 100GB.
> No. It doesn't make sense to put this into E coli.

So pick a strain of cyanobacteria or algae instead.
> If the internet stopped people from falling for bullshit

the person you're replying to didn't make such a strong claim.
Please, leave it in the ground.
Most of the tens of thousands of emails were cryptographically verified as authentic by DKIM headers.
I think out of all the "news" media so far Wikileaks is probably the most trustworthy.

I've seen people claim they altered the emails or Russians wrote the emails, I think they'd have to point to specific instances for me to see it. I don't remember a single instance of them altering an email. I don't remember anyone credible refuting and saying they didn't write it.

How do we know these emails are interesting and useful -- we listen to the CNN of course, remember folks "...it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us." that was my first hint documents should be read very closely.

When mass media lies about something it overcompensates, and one heuristic I use is I just reverse the meaning of it. "don't read the documents" and I interpret it as "that's a place to take a look", or "we are exporting democracy to the Middle East" that means "we are installing puppet regimes there" and so on. It is a funny exercise.
The function he is trying to prove is analytic is a ratio of the zeta function at two places, so can be thought of as a ratio of two different complex functions. What if they both have a zero for some complex number s, i.e. zeta(2s)/zeta(s) = 0/0, and l'hospitals rule ends up showing its a removable singularity and so the ratio is still analytic, like he says. In that case, he hasn't shown there are no zeros in the critical strip outside the critical line.
Maybe people wouldn't believe fake news if there were any respectable legacy media outlets left. When the media does everything it can to slowly erode trust (http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media...), it's no surprise that things like this will happen.

And I find it funny how legacy media now turns the blame on Facebook instead of looking at itself and changing its behavior. This is such a bad move (as expected by people who don't know what they're doing) that will only empower alternative media even more and further diminish the legacy media's influence over people.
With Z3, unfortunately, the issue is that we are really bad at gauging what makes for a hard SMT problem. Often, knowing that a particular problem is hard is the same as solving it! That said, you can do some really interesting things with SMT solvers if you can formulate the problem the right way.

Gurobi, CPLEX, and friends are less magical if you have enough mathematical maturity. Typically, if you are comfortable with linear algebra (a subject woefully ignored in most undergraduate curricula), you can work with them. In my experience, working with optimization engines is a two step process. First, you need to figure out how to formulate the problem in a smart way (typically this means that it's convex with constraints in a certain format), which is normally the hard part. Then you scroll through the list of available algorithms that the engine has at your disposal and pick one with properties that you like (they often have suggestions if you have no strong preference). Normally, if you can formulate the problem so it's convex, you will at least have a good shot of doing well with your optimization.
I'm not an RF person, but I don't think this will be practical for cell phones in the near future. Smart phone batteries barely make it through the day as is, and inverse square laws aren't on our side when it comes to space (even low earth orbit). My phone would last about an hour if it was transmitting at 10 watts
The American media hasn't avoided the deadly mistake of propagandizing the American public on the behalf of the US government into the Iraq war, for instance, and it has fed Americans a steady died of thinly veiled nationalism and imperialism with selective stories and whitewashing of American accountability for my entire adult life.

Or - take the recent National Security Advisor's own bragging about making the US media into an echo chamber of support for controversial policies.

Having myself submitted articles to major US news media syndicates, I can only express my frustration with their editorializing - as it consistently and repeatedly has rewritten very specifically chosen words into weasel words and apologisms, changing the meaning and implications of my articles. The worst part is that the editorializing (and choosing of misleading headlines) often actually makes the article read more clearly.

Given the huge role of former propaganda directors and national security administrators in high levels of the US press today along with a very dependent relationship on the US government for access, stories and purchases - it's not at all surprising that the media functions in this manner. But that doesn't prevent it from being frustrating, or the US media from making 'deadly' mistakes.
Don't do it. A startup is a lot of work and the chance of success is miniscule even for the people with decades of background in CS.
I understand how the DNC has been in the past but that doesn't tell us how it should be in the future.

Primaries are supposed to generate winning candidates, not lend support to people because of their longtime service to the party. Maybe you disagree, but I bet the majority of democrats do not.

The vote matters because it is like a massive poll of who will energize the base the most. And the emails show the methodologies used weren't good. If we care about getting democratic candidates in the White House, we should care about fixing those methodologies.
I realize you are just providing info, and I appreciate it, so I want to preface this by saying I am also just trying to add some context to the conversation.

The pixel offers a $99 replacement plan, plus an additional $99 every time you replace the phone, up to 2 times. I think it lasts for 2 years.

If the only thing holding you back on getting the phone is being able to get it repaired, the cost difference is $70 or $50 the first time you break your screen, and $40 or $0 the second time, and the plan covers more than just broken screens.

The biggest downside is that you have to front the $99.
Plenty of telecoms have had 24 hour abuse desks, which generally handled this sort of thing. Even more specialized departments for law enforcement in the huge majors and you always had a 24x7 on-call legal counsel if needed. It is absolutely possible to get someone on in real time if you are Important(tm) enough and have a lawful reason that is life critical in nature.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, etc. all pretty much fall under the "telecom" label these days in what they do, so it's not surprising in the least.

Just expanding on that - not dipping my toe into any other part of this debate!
As I read the article, the influence the industry has over prices is definitely a big problem, as are some of the statements of those in government defending the accuracy of the prices and basically covering themselves. The government officials sound like sadly typical "everything's fine, we're looking into it" language.

Not knowing the broader GA situation, can you shed light on "strip the organization of resources over time"? I don't see that in the article. It does sound like he could have used more support, but that can be the case in many jobs, in industry or government.

From what I see, Schronce has been a civil servant since October 1996.

PDF: http://atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=4&...

Oct 1996 - August 2014
Director of Public Affairs, GA Dept of Agriculture

August 2014 -
Marketing Representative for Municipal Market Board for City of Atlanta

I wasn't able to fill in the gap between working for the Municipal Market Board and returning to the Dept of Agriculture.

His blog was part of the Dept of Agriculture website. Describing the situation as "former garden blogger turned director of whatever" is an unfair characterization of the situation. I don't see in the article whether the Director of Public Affairs is an appointed position or not, nor could I find information about that online. He has a background in agriculture, a horticulture graduate of North Carolina State University. If it was an appointment, it doesn't appear to be purely political.

http://agr.georgia.gov/artys-garden.aspx

I also don't see an indication from the article that he was worried about reprisal. I agree it's important to shield regulators to let them do their jobs as free of influence as possible.

He did write a memo, raising the issue. With the light that's now been cast on the situation, hopefully it'll get fixed. No system is perfect. What makes a difference is whether it gets fixed now that the issue is known.

The particulars of the Georgia Dock aside, how does this compare with other states, red, blue, or purple?
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Moving oil by rail is really, really, not the greatest idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
> before voters questionably decided to give control to the legislature this election

I think you mean:

Before the legislatures questionably took control after putting favorable wording on a ballot that the average uninformed voter read as a no brainer.
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/evidence-guccifer-2-0-is-russia...
I have no idea why this is being downvoted now.
He can't. Therefore, blame and run. And at the same time people like him with powers use their overreach to arrest and torture an individual without charges. Lame.
He doesn't have to build business in parallel with the world's priority. Why not ask Apple to make schools instead?
> US elections in a very particular way.

Half the country thinks it is a in good way, half in a bad way. There is nothing to worry thought, Clinton had about 3 or 4 world class new agencies with 24/7 support for her. What's a few emails here and there...

> Why would the NYT publish this obvious garbage without counterpoint?

So it doesn't agree with your view point so it is garbage and needs a counterpoint.
Every single application or website is a system (see the push in recent years for web assembly).

The difference is that a "systems programming language" has the capability of being used low level if needed while a "shit scripting language" such as javascript does not. Basically what I am saying here is that Javascript is an underwear taint-stain for modern computer science. With any luck it will be rid of this world in 20 years and you javascript programmers can stop torturing yourselves with new "hot libraries" and "ECMA transpilers" every 2-4 years.
You should Google for what Elon thinks about space-based solar energy.
What if everyone starts streaming 4k?
Tesla shareholders approve SolarCity merger by 85% vote
They've been missing since Monday. Dehydration and exposure, combined with poor wilderness survival skills, should be taking their toll right about now. Time is, unfortunately, running out.
It won't matter, if they become a big enough threat to powerful interests they will be taken down. The only solutions I see are: hidden service in TOR, tracker hosted in .ru (nobody took down libgen yet and you can bet plenty have tried), or a decentralized solution that can serve metadata over the swarm in addition to torrents.
Re first para: As long as people don't think [flagged] means moderators applied special powers to demote a story, your description is fine with me.

Re second para: User flags make a post drop in rank and, beyond a certain threshold kill the post as well (unless it has many comments). [flagged] means there are lots of flags. [dead] means the post was killed. A [dead] a.k.a. killed post is closed to new comments and is visible only to users who have 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile. Flags are one way for a post to become dead, but there are others, such as the site being banned. Moderators typically don't kill posts, unless we're banning a user or a site. Vouches are anti-flags but only exist when a post is [dead]; their purpose is to counteract any flags that are making the post be [dead]. You're right that we could have 'vouch' show up even if an article is merely [flagged] rather than [dead]. I'd have to think a bit about that. Have I answered your questions? :)
more memorably (ha ha you'll see what I did there) for the majority of people here, Jay Forrester invented core memory which revolutionized computers of that generation. Prior to core, memory schemes were bizarre and klugy, like storing information on the screen of a cathode ray tube, detectable when you scan across it again; or sonic vibrations in mercury which you wait to emerge from the other end.

Primary memory is still called core by old timers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
Facebook now lets users trigger Safety Checks
Mega – Cloud storage service got Hacked
> I've seen people claim they altered the emails or Russians wrote the emails, I think they'd have to point to specific instances for me to see it. I don't remember a single instance of them altering an email. I don't remember anyone credible refuting and saying they didn't write it.

Yes, once Wikileaks showed cryptographic proof that the emails were authentic, those criticisms stopped.
What are the most effective measures a British citizen could take right now to escape this surveillance?
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Their data set may be more valuable than paper itself...
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Who said anything about it being free?

And, increasingly, I'm not so sure the internet has been a good thing all told.
Allowing "cell" phones to need only satellite link instead of cell tower would be huge. Would also finally kill off the nasty cellular companies and their plans in the.
This is perfectly spot on. However, I'd argue that it took the DNC leaks for people en masse to understand this. People broadly thought that they had a legitimate say in the candidate promoted by the party affiliation.

Today, people still haven't really figured out that there are very narrow ideological differences between the two parties that control the entire electoral process. It's very obvious, of course, but it takes things like "shocking" leaks that show the emperor is naked.
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Yes, it's new narrative that has been pushed. It's not like the NYTimes was saying wikileaks was a Russian cover up for the past month. Without any real proofs. Now, the issue is stupid people reading fake news, without anything to back it off. Next week will be something else, we get it. Probably for "fake news", they don't have to look far.
There are 3 (and only three) solutions here, for whomever thinks of doing something similar again:

+ Hidden service in TOR

+ Tracker/forums hosted in .ru (Nobody took down libgen or sci-hub yet and you can bet many have tried)

+ Decentralized software solution that can serve metadata and forums over the swarm in addition to torrents.

The first solution forces TOR on everyone, not ideal.

The third solution is not quite there yet, but should be the future.

So, at the moment, I would say that if you're not hosting your shit in Russia, don't even bother ...

The only reason other private trackers that are hosted in western countries have not been taken down is that most of them are too niche for any special interests to bother. If/when that threshold gets crossed, as it was for what.cd, they will all be destroyed. This should provide a powerful disincentive for people to contribute their time and resources to such communities, unless of course they implement any of the solutions I mentioned. Alas, most private tracker operators are clueless idiots on a power trip and lack the vision (nevermind the technical expertise) to deal with or implement proper solutions to well-known issues.

Look to the russians for inspiration.
should people have freedom to drive however they want, on roads used by plenty of other people too?

that seems like a good way to increase road fatalities
In some cases. In others, you can stay with others, or rent an entire house in a small village, or rent something crazy, etc. Airbnb has its faults, but there are loads of options on there.
Same goes other way. Modifying windows files on a POSIX system end up creating incompatibility which aren't easily resolvable. As an example, one can create a file with a trailing space easily but good luck trying to mamage it using standard windows tools. I am not sure why MS thinks this is a good idea.
He meant further decoupling the torrents, not the metadata. Obviously you need the metadata to come from your users and community, not just 3rd party providers. Otherwise what would be the point?

The wealth of the metadata present in what.cd that represents years of work far surpassed anything available in public 3rd party sites.
> in the context of a beta product, it's more "Here's something we are getting large numbers of reports about while we're refining the software for production release. In the meantime, don't do this."

I don't see any indication in the article that this behavior is something they intend to change in order to "fix" a "problem". It looks to me like don't do this, period.
Some people think that there is no need and they take political and regulatory positions specifically to undermine regulations. Something to think about when someone in a position to impact regulatory effectiveness does something that seems incomprehensible.

But it's not always the case, sometimes people are just thick or we lack a complete picture.