skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if I modify a file in the Linux filesystem as a Windows user, what should the ownership be?

Inherited from the directory, like it is on Windows and Linux (by default)? And 777 is a perfectly fine default, since it's a good match for the Windows default attributes and ACLs.

It seems to me that there is no "one size fits all" fix here.

There isn't. But there is a sensible default, which is not "assumes the file is corrupted/damaged".

Consider what happens in Linux if you mount a filesystem like FAT which doesn't even support all the extended metadata. No extended metadata does not mean "I can't do anything with the files", unlike what seems to be happening with WSL here.
I understood the article's point as saying that in strongly typed languages, GUIDs / UUIDs should be handled as an instance of the standard lib's built-in UUID datatype, rather than anything else (string, number, char[], etc). In strongly typed languages, this is good practice for type safety, with the pleasant side-effect of allowing for denser storage vs. some toString() or other exploded form.
>decrypt TLS sessions

How do they do that? Do you understand how TLS works? They would have to MITM every session, and it would be immediately obvious as the key exchange wouldn't line up.

Unless you're implying they've found a way to solve the discrete logarithm problem?
Have we seen a single shred of evidence of Russian involvement?
Military types with a chest of medals saying so on CNN doesn't count btw.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean you can just put all the satellites right above the part of the world that is awake - so you are still going to not have a perfectly efficient system.
That's a pretty embarrassing, angry rant. Do you really doubt that Wikileaks would have released information about Trump if any had been leaked that was significant?
Look up the connection between Einstein's general relativity and GPS accuracy for more fun. Especially early on in its deployment.
Two reasons it won't end the world.

1. This is in vitro work, and even there it is only 5x as efficient. In vivo I'd expect that rate to go down.

2. Metabolism is expensive. This is probably not a very fit pathway. It takes a lot of energy to produce the proteins and ATP necessary to power this cycle and it's product isn't more ATP. It would incur a substantial fitness cost and in the wild it would likely get out grown by wild bacteria that favor Glucose producing photosynthesis.

Not that a new ice age couldn't happen, but carbon fixation is already at a evolutionary local maximum among the six different wild versions, so I don't see why a 7th would be any different.
Yeah long term I don't see Wikileaks coming out of all this looking very good. Their final write up will be "Russian stooge".
Wouldn't your OS not being able to see files from a component on your computer be even worse?
I'm inclined to believe that he's all right, but to be fair, that "questioning" was through a third party, and Assange never faced them directly.
The cost is a problem. But the hassle... Well, it's not a journey to slip on a pair of goggles. The satisfaction of arriving at your destination stands in contrast to the journey.

The joy of summiting a mountain is diminished if you ride a tram to the top instead of climbing it.
1. If they know who their sources are, if they are compromised, their source is compromised.

2. They don't need to rationalize it. It benefits Wikileaks to pit multiple parts of the "unaccountable network" against one another, increasing the number of leaks and therefore the transparency available to the common man, and weakening the overall "unaccountable network."
What do you all think about the practice of pushing changes to an open pull request based on code review feedback? My org has not established a consistent policy around this and often people will push changes after some reviewers have already approved the request, which I find concerning. On the other hand, it is nice to see review comments being addressed in the same branch/PR. Thoughts?
I would pay to go to a classical concert where the entry fees were donated to charity and the recordings put in the public domain, they could be immediately uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons.

I don't think stuffy execs at Sony getting rich is necessary for people to enjoy classical music. Those guys and girls should go find something useful to contribute to the humanity if their role in profiting off of dead artists has been obsoleted by technology.
> Wikileaks is the epitome of the propaganda and fake online news that influenced the U.S. campaign

Did you notice that Wikileaks showed via DKIM signatures that the vast majority of the emails were cryptographically proven to be unaltered. After that the notion that the emails were doctored vanished.
Definitely one of the cooler and more in depth posts this year, what a great read.
Wonder if we'll see CDNs in space too. Would solve one side of the transmission problem.
ETag is for notifying that content has been updated, so how would you use the mechanism to log someone in?
Uh, the emails were verified as unaltered via DKIM signatures. Once Wikileaks did this all the talk of doctoring vanished, but you appear not to have realized this.
Jack Dorsey apologizes for Neo-Nazi ad, blames automated system
Trump has said himself that he does not use email. Wikileaks has released lots of negative information on various Republican candidates, as well (see their Iraq collection involving Bush), and have no bias toward any political entity. That's the entire point of their existence.
Oxygen is being consumed by oxidases, producing hydrogen peroxide, and the peroxide is being turned to water and oxygen by a different enzyme. So this could be run with oxygen instead.
Check the 7th bullet point in the link.
There was a generation of engineering professors at MIT (and I'm sure elsewhere) like Forrester, Doc Edgerton, Doc Draper, etc. who represented a sort of hands on experimentation who I suspect would not have become faculty in a later era. Which I consider rather unfortunate.
Many of the emails were proven authentic via DKIM signatures.
My current team suffers from disgust of Taco Bell programming. I love it, and I push hard to use it for the projects I lead. I've even had other leads scoff at my use of Python because "the GIL will throttle your application!" Possibly, but I understand the performance requirements of my systems and GIL is the last thing I'm worrying about. I'm not going to write my own programming language, or use one that doesn't have a good ecosystem, because an existing language is deficient in some negligible aspect.

Engineers who build things from scratch do not understand a very profound fact about software engineering: a computer performs menial, repetitive tasks so you don't have to. Be lazy and use someone else's solution.

When I was 14 I remember writing bubble sort from scratch dozens of times, as well as input scrubbing methods and binary search trees. I didn't know about the concept of libraries. Granted the internet (sourceforge, github, etc) wasn't around and I was writing everything in BASIC or Pascal. By the time I graduated high school I understood that writing code was painful.

Consequently, it's sometimes alarming that most systems I build rely on thousands of lines of code that I didn't write and rarely ever inspect. But I have to trust other developers in order to get my work done in a reasonable amount of time. I don't even consider myself a good programmer, mostly because I hate writing code. Nevertheless I do deliver useful, valuable systems. I know my problem has already been solved by someone else. I like being lazy. It's my best quality.

This isn't addressed in the article, but avoidance of Taco Bell programming is a symptom of a disease. The disease is ignorance; mostly in managers who are out of touch with the technical landscape in which their teams work. Any time I hear of a team building their own tools or doing significant amounts of de-novo work, I try to limit my dependencies on that team. You're never going to ship that shit, buddy, but I solemnly admire you for trying.
Unless I can do it sans central server, web torrent maybe? Any ideas?
Okay, then that means you're ventilating the output heat poorly. If there is a significant difference in temperature between the coils and the room, you're spending more power than you need to when you pump heat out of the fridge. Adding fins or fans would save you more power than you could ever recover.
Its a very serious intrusion that was denounced by the by American Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz and others.

The front organisations are real and the intent of starting a 'Catholic Spring' was descussed by Podesta and other high ranking DNC officials.
Amazin, no hope for slow down of climate change.
Wikileaks are not "spreading misinformation", they verify everything that they get before they leak it. This is why people take what they leak so seriously - any jackass with an internet connection can spread information, but wikileaks has a reputation for thouroughly vetting the information they recieve.
I don't have much time to look up references at the moment, but the TARP and other stimulus-related bills enjoyed bipartisan support.

I still disagree with your second assertion. The Tea Party forcing the Republicans to the right happened outside Washington and didn't seem directly related to anything Obama or the Democrats had done.

About the Boehner-Obama moment: while (if I recall correctly) it ultimately led to another budget, in the thick of their negotiations, they would have changed tax law as well. [1] I agree that there are fewer easily memorable moments of bipartisanship after 2010 but I do not agree that the Democratic supermajority (which really only lasted a year, due to Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts) played an important role in promoting obstructionism.

Rather, the Tea Party and the ACA fight provided cover for the Republican leadership to do what they had already been planning (see the Washington Post link from above for an unattributed source who claims the same).

1. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/07/11/137760498/grand-bargain-budget-deal-elusive

EDIT:

I was incorrect about the reason the Boehner-Obama negotiations began - it was the federal borrowing limit [2]. Reports at the time, and since, suggested that this fight was totally unnecessary, as the all expenditures accounted for by the borrowing limit would already have been approved by Congress.

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/debt-reduction-talks-in-limbo-as-clock-ticks-toward-aug-2-deadline/2011/07/10/gIQAOeXt7H_story.html
Putin likes to make it look that way, yes. And on the surface it does. Beneath the surface, there are lots of important differences.

The EU doesn't block websites. It doesn't control the media. It ensures freedom of speech. It makes it possible even for US companies to do business in the EU, without the fear that their servers are seized whenever some corrupt regime decides to. The EU doesn't go after dissidents... and the list goes on and on...
At the end it's essentially a promotion for Basecamp.
A great book by one of his proteges, Donella Meadows: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...
Wikileaks does not want to have editorial control over what they see as relevant or important, and what they see as irrelevant.

This is good because journalists are the ones that should be responsible for "verify[ing] and corroborat[ing] information" before presenting it to the public. You can go to many different news sites and see many different editorial perspectives on what of the Wikileaks leaks are important. This way the consumer of information can avoid the inherent weakness that only one editorial perspective would provide.
Considering two of the bits will have large coupling between the two, that sounds like a bad idea...

A 4 bit differential output would be pretty darn good.

Actually, that might be the case: some boards have 4 presumably output ethernet ports.

edit: https://bighexmachine.github.io/hexModuleSpec/ looks like I'm right?
I mean, I guess, but (a) it's old news and (b) you could call him a Citibank executive, or you could call him the Chief of Staff in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department.

That article mentions Froman's October 6, 2008 email.

Here's an October 27, 2008 CBS story that talks about the role Froman was playing in the transition: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-really-backing-barack-obama...

Here's the Treasury Department's announcement of the staff change, including Froman as Chief of Staff: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDIR-1997-06-04/pdf/CDIR-1997-...

I guess the new news is that we see a bit of how the sausage is made, but my assumption was always that the inner circle of advisors has a lot of clout in deciding who staffs the positions. I don't really see this email as damning one way or the other--what am I missing?
I would characterize US media as the most prevalent source of misinformation for Americans. From the outright lies, blatant propaganda and media manipulation that dragged America into the Iraq War, to the despicably hallow coverage of the Syrian proxy war with context like the genocide in Bahrain completely whitewashed, all the way to silly equivocations like "Trump and Putin are best friends" or "Putin got a boobjob."

The US media bubble exists to satisfy it's customers, which are NOT it's consumers. These media organizations are paid to bring stories, ideas and perspectives - in the form of media narrative - to audiences. The GAO has indicated that the US is a huge buyer in this regard spending billions in advertising and PR (a huge component of the entire international industry).

Wikileaks is (was?) a credible voice that didn't editorialize. It refused to partially edit collections of documents, disclosing them in full. When we got a bunch of nonsense from the media about the SONY hacks, Wikileaks backed up the US government take that the attack was from North Korea by connecting the attack to US propaganda operations involving themselves in the filmaking process, and evaluating how to direct the film in a way that might destabilize the country (efforts that of course failed).

Similarly, much of the news reporting on Wikileaks by some of its compeditors has been filled with nonsense and unattributed rumors about Assange and it's teams of lawyers.

Media outlets rarely (never) provide the context that the HB Gary Federal leaks implicated the US in plans to disturb the quality of reporting out of Wikileaks to discredit it, in retaliation for disclosing US diplomatic cables that did a huge amount of damage to the US reputation (for having been duplicitous in countless ways with the public and with allies diplomats).

I feel as though there is a vacuum that will be created if Assange is killed and/or Wikileaks dismantled by intelligence. A vacuum for a peek behind the curtain of pro-government narrative that US National Security spends so much treasure making ubiquidous. A loss of Wikileaks may very well lead to a series of replacements (many of them garunteed to be various intelligence agencies) and therefore more leaks, until the militaries of various countries can more totally solve the problem of information control in the new internet medium.
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I read it, I don't see your point. One must believe that WL was actively trying to help Trump to think it would just sit on relevant information. I don't believe that as Assange likened both candidates to various diseases in one of his earlier statements.
Have you even read the leaks? Wikileaks' sole purpose is government transparency, and Assange wanted to harm Clinton because she was withholding large amounts of collusion, corruption, and private policies from the public. This has nothing to do with Wikileaks' political orientation, just as this article states. It has everything to do with transparency to the people, to keep them well-informed.
Breitbart is far from a fringe community. Just because you didn't see it growing dramatically over the past few years it doesn't mean they have a small audience.
Silicon Valley, as a generalized concept.
I don't think I have one unfortunately. It depends greatly on the scenario.

Usually I'd say come up with a unique name if you can. Otherwise I'd say try to overwrite (possibly overwrite via rename, rather than CreateFile, to avoid the data loss you mention).

I've even written some code to rename to a unique name first, then delete.
That summary is terrible.

Apparently, the op of the summary will only be satisfied if an equal and opposite leak happens to the trump campaign.

Not everyone falls for obvious phishing attempts.

Shouldn't we consider your susceptibility to phishing as evidence of judgement? Shouldn't it be evidence of your qualification as a Leader? Shouldn't it reflect on you if your trusted advisors get owned by bit.ly links for gmail password resets?
My experience is that this was arguably true in the NT/9x days, wasn't really true in the XP days, and is quite false with Windows 7 onwards.

What exactly has caused you to need to unhide those files this decade?
Right, the US National Security apparatus will be the author of the writeup, and Americans won't have any access to a story outside the bubble.
Completely unrelated to the article but boy do I like the design for Keybase. The blog is beautiful and minimal with no crap popping up on your screen asking for your email (every modern blog now seems to do this.) The colors work perfectly too. In fact, that combination of white, blue, black, and gray is very similar to what Bitcoinica originally used for their popular Bitcoin margin trading platform back in the day (and I like it as much now as I did back then - contrasts so well on every screen type.)

The home page also follows a similar pattern: just beautiful, uncluttered, no bullshit design, that gets straight to the point. Why can't more websites do this? A+++ would browse again.
I think this is more of the "with us or against us" mentality. I'm definitely not on right yet I'm sticking up for them a lot lately because because all "the left" is doing is yelling at people about racism and misogyny, not to mention a lot of other crazy stuff like cultural appropriation.

Not to mention, a lot of the "alt right" is not particularly right wing at all, some (like protectionism) is even left wing.
Clapper today said that the government doesn't know how WL got the emails. And earlier statements have said that a "state actor" was suspected for circumstantial reasons (the claim was that government officials in a variety of nations were targeted). So you are correct, there has been zero evidence.
You can exploit the fact that HTTP caching sends the ETag back and forth. A server can set a crafted ETag and basically use it as a session ID. See [1][2]

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12679/how-can-i-... [2] https://github.com/lucb1e/cookielesscookies/blob/master/inde...
Why 2nd & Market? That sticks out from that list.
Real or not? USC study finds many political tweets come from fake accounts
If everyone's military plans were transparent maybe we'd have a chance for world peace.
Miami beach has run out of sand
.. i hope you are being sarcastic because they are different. the latter is not for a house to sleep in but rather someone you can sleep with.. it can be in a dumpster or box if need be.
The morality of democracy
> I disagree with you about the DNC emails, they go above and beyond preference into outright campaign strategy coordination and undermine the whole idea of the primary process.

What exactly do you think the primaries are? They are not official elections. The democratic party (and the republican party) exist to help the candidates they want to support get elected. Note the mere existence of superdelegates. Primaries are designed to allow people to have some influence on the party's choice (and to get the electorate feeling invested in the party's choice of candidate... obviously the DNC messed that up), but really, the primaries are designed to maximize exposure for the candidates to help them in the general election. Trump is the perfect example of why the parties want some control over who they lend their name to in the general election. I'm sure that the emails flying around the RNC while they had a chance of influencing Trump's election put the DNC to absolute shame.

Bernie was not even a democrat at all prior to this election. Bernie has been an independent for his whole political career. He joined the democratic party just for this election, and he's now an independent again. It seems absurd to expect party support with that context. I think Bernie made a deliberate choice to run in the Democratic primary (despite not being a Democrat) to avoid the spoiler effect in the general election, knowing that it was unlikely he would get DNC support. I respect him a lot for that decision.

Don't get me wrong, I would have been very happy if Bernie won (especially over Trump), but this idea that the DNC is a rotten institution that deserves an organizational death penalty for working with Clinton over Bernie is ridiculous.
That NPR bit was to associate Trump's rise as a consequence of the alt-right and their (racist) view of America. It's not that they pulled punches, it's that they want to alarm non alt-rights to make it look like they are taking over the Republican party.

If NRP were on the right, they'd get something along the lines of black-power revolution types up there and let them go off and make it look like all Dems are like that. It's a mechanism to show the worst group of one side and associate it with a mainstream group so as to pollute the opinion of the mainstream group.
Good info, but the article isn't referring to events that took place between 1872-2002. If you look at the details of the article these anomalies in pricing began in the 2007 timeframe, and the attached chart starts in 2005.

That timeframe coincides with a wave of privatization within the state, including the divestment of IT from state governance to an outsourcing deal and broad tax cuts that devastated local government and education.

I'm not engaging in knee-jerk partisanship. The playbook for modern republican governance calls for contracting services out, diminishing the role of civil servants, and making tax reduction a cornerstone policy position. When you replace civil servants with political appointees of any party, this sort of thing happens. It just so happens that republicans are the offenders in this story.
> Should military plans be transparent?

Yes when they contradict lies told to the people to help sell a war.

Secrecy is a privilege that officials need to earn. In the US there is widespread abuse of power when officials make unflattering information top secret so it won't be released to the public. That's what the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs showed us.

Obviously some things should be kept secret, but in the US we have way too much government secrecy and it's used as a tool to help officials abuse power.
We use Bitbucket at work and were able to configure it such that when this happens Bitbucket automatically unapproves the pull request. This seems to work pretty well and allows code reviews changes to be seamless, e.g. the extra commits can be squashed. I would think github/gitlab etc probably have similar features.
How do you validate a leak? What if it's 90% true except for the part that matters?

The true strategists convince the enemy they're getting what they want, and then profit from it.

If wikileaks was real they would be targeted by state sponsored hackers regularly. There's a strong possibility this is a facade.
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