skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has been involved in 'Color Revolutions' for a long time. There is evidence that Ukrainian revolution was in part aided by US and EU.

George Soros Is also a big player in financing NGOs that work to establish phony social movements. Both Hillary and the DNC are connected to Soros Open Society Foundations. Soros is also funding BLM and other groups that are active in the protests/riots going on.
I get that AI is all the rage right now. But this is an information-thin Microsoft press release, if not outright ad, with the OpenAI stamp on it. These things really should not be on the front page.
I think this is cool, I wanna go urban gardening with Ron.
> 1. Cracked screens are incredibly easy to fix, so the one example you can give that doesn't cost an arm and a leg is the one thing that arguably any random repair shop should be able to do.

Provided you can find spare parts, good luck finding spare parts for the Pixel. For Apple products it's usually a breeze.
What really changed my mind was the MLOC delphi application I maintain as part of my dayjob. People don't think "oh wow I wish this was a ctrl-v instead of shift-ins and what am I ever gonna do if this file dialog looks kinda weird and unfamiliar? and oh no, the context menu in this grid is actually a window with a handle and not the default menu that was originally intended by the win32 api gods? Give me cancer or give me death"

No, they just busily work X hours and go home. They only care about getting their job done and if that means getting used to the interface they do so. We actually have users who've been around for about 20 years and you should see how fast they can enter some of the stuff.
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This book changed my life. After reading this, I had an insatiable need to learn more about systems and dynamic systems interactions - a passion that led me to getting my macroeconomics degree today.
Those emails were quite a bit more serious than just political sausage-making. For one thing, they contained evidence of blatantly illegal behavior, i.e. the coordination of the campaign and "independent" groups.

This is particularly noteworthy because of the hypocrisy involved. Clinton has put a lot of effort into vilifying Citizens United - she was calling for more restrictive campaign laws while at the same time breaking the ones that pass constitutional muster.
I dunno, I think McEvers did alright. Except for people who would already identify with Spencer, I don't think anyone would think he was normal in anyway. She let him hang himself well.
How do you figure? We farmers spend most of our time not producing food, but sharpening our pencils. If the higher cost of the seed wasn't offset in other ways, we wouldn't consider using it in the first place. It has to pay. The grain business, where I operate, is so competitive that even a small amount of overspending will result in losing money. Do that too many times and you'll be out of business completely.

To add to that, the market requires quite a bit more for non-GMO food. Right now I can tell you that non-GMO soybeans carry a $2.50/bu. premium. That gives you a pretty good idea of how much more it costs to grow non-GMO food, at least as far as soybeans go, as that is what it is taking to attract farmers to consider growing those varieties. That is after factoring in DRM/IP-like costs.
Copying and pasting from down-thread - a Putin apparatchik was gloating to the Guardian that they helped sway the election the day after the results came in (ctrl+f "wikileaks":

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/putin-applau...
What would you propose they do? Not leak documents based upon who the source is?

Actually as far as I remember, this has always been part of their method of operation from the beginning, and they explicitly state this: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784873305463459841.

They are more than just someone who releases whatever is given to them- they attempt to vet the information and publicise it as well. Which are functions that probably should be done, but it's very hard to appear impartial when you do that...
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When that happens, I fully expect that as the value of available domain names go up, people will invest in expensive domains (blah.com) in order to treat them as "2LD"s and sell its 3LDs (xyz.blah.com). But it won't happen while there are 2LDs available for the exact reasons stated above (nobody wants a subdomain when they can have an actual domain).
From the abstract I gathered that average looking people are generally considered law-abiding whereas people with outlier features are more likely to fall into the criminal category: "The variation among criminal faces is significantly greater than that of the non-criminal faces."

Likening this to the "wage gap" where the XY chromosome is responsible for more outlier behavior: both the top of society and the bottom is both heavily dominated by male participants, whereas the female population is closer to the average and has far fewer outliers. Could this be related?

There's variance in XY chromosomes that cause men to swing wildly on the scale in both positive and negative directions. There seems to be an answer to the hypothesis that asserts that individuals with wildly differing attributes seem more often than not to fall on the outside of the law.
When people expect to get news for free on the web, it's hard to see how quality journalism can survive.
> I feel like it would have been helpful for the people to know what they had on Trump.

I agree! I wish they did if they had it.

> Seems oddly opaque and politically motivated.

But what was shown was still factual and I'll take what I can get.

CNN, NBC, FOX, CBS, NYT and other mass media did a pretty good job at digging into Trump. With billions of dollar media apparatus, it is not that too upsetting Wikileaks didn't cover Trump as well. Others did a pretty good job there it seems.

> But when you see the pattern of leaks and omissions,

But what is better? CNN? Facebook friends? I don't have a lot of trustworthy sources around.
No, with a packet capture and the private keys from both sides, you would still not be able to identify the master secret negotiated out of the dh key exchange.

However, both sides obviously know the master secret, so if you can extract it from one of the clients then you can use that in wireshark to decrypt the application data packets. In wirshark preferences, this is called the pre-master-secret log filename.
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People can survive for about 3-5 days without water. If they weren't travelling with water they are probably close to the upper bound of this. Its entirely credible.
Man, what a bummer. I've been using this thing for years to find stuff I couldn't get anywhere else.
I've thought about this, too. In particular, I'd like to, say, separately up vote "substantive" and down vote "agree". That said, how complex do we really want the UX to be?

As for "didn't read", if you're not interested, just move on. If you think the article is inappropriate and can, flag and move on. If you see a comment that looks like the poster didn't read the article, you can call civilly call out what is in the article, and perhaps down vote the comment.
All they'd need to do is leak a single email, or even a snippet of a single email that was in the relevant date range but not released, and assert that WL had suppressed it.

FWIW we also saw HRC and her cronies claiming that the recently released emails were doctored. They made this claim straight-faced and it was cryptographically proven to be completely false.

So claims about WL's motivations and actions have thus far not stood up to scrutiny, and our officials have thus far been proven to be dishonest.
ICMP echo request packets, hence repetitive
Yes, including memes depicting him as a "Holy Duo" with Vladimir Putin. Fascist and fascist, together at last.

All of which misses the point that the Emperor is the bad guy, because it's grimdark: there are no good guys.
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
Also troubling to see OpenAI partnering with Microsoft, which has a record of developing surveillance systems that could leverage AI in harmful ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
Exactly, some people here start melting down when a lightly paywalled WSJ link is posted.
I've had my last.fm account for over a decade and a what.cd account for most of its existence. You're correct that they provided similar resources for music junkies.

You could probably recreate most of last.fm's (non-scrobble) data from sites like musicbrainz or discogs. It's definitely great for the reasons you mentioned, like recommendations and neighbors. But to be honest, last.fm is pretty bad at being a source for discography-type information. There's duplicate albums, incomplete album information, weird track names, etc. It's gotten better with their recent update efforts though. I love last.fm and will continue to scrobble and use it for music discovery. But discovery is only half the battle. You need to somehow find that 2001 release from that post-hardcore band in Ohio that only existed for a couple years. If it was anywhere, it was on what.cd, ready for your ears.

I would say what.cd had a significantly more unique offering. You could browse endlessly, bookmarking artists or albums to come back to later, or make your own collections. You could watch an artist or record label to be notified of new uploads/releases. There were comments on artist/album pages going back years, not to mention the forums which were their own trove of great musical discussion and discovery.

It had user-created collages of various themes or purposes, with hand-picked selections and staff recommendations. An elaborate request system existed where users could request albums (down to specific source and bitrate) and donate ratio "bounty" to whoever fulfilled the request. All artists had ranked tagging and a web of related/interconnected artists. Artist discographies were extensively curated, not only with full album lists, but with multiple version/formats/releases of each album.

I mean, any non-obscure album could easily have 10+ versions well-seed and available. You didn't just get "The Postal Service - Give Up", you got "The Postal Service - Give Up 2007 Deluxe 2LP Reissue Vinyl" in your choice of FLAC, FLAC 24bit, 320CBR or V2/V0 VBR -- or maybe you wanted the 2008 Korean Reissue with bonus tracks? Also available in multiple formats. Releases would be flagged and trumped if album tags were incorrect; elaborate ripping rules and guides were established; people posted spectrographs of new releases to identify transcodes and immediately flag anything not up to par. It was so serious.

It's a truly great loss.
This is not a game. This is whether the human race lives or dies.
> malware has turned the mainstream media into a spam-serving botnet for a league of fascists.

Because they published an article about Wikileaks, they are now spreading fascism? You really believe that?
Americans should love this. Artificially inflated food prices are what tariffs and a lack of trade agreements are for. That causes local consumers to pay more to support local producers rather than paying a fair international price. How can someone complain about this article's kind of cheating and at the same time want to restrict cheap imports - which has the same effect of artificially inflating prices?
Good reading material here https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Here's an example from the FBI website itself, announcing the seizure of 150 websites by taking over control of their domain name:

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/washingtondc/press-release...
Same here. Easy to setup projects. Quick to deploy. Focus on the app instead of administration. Go+AppEngine has a lot of my projects - no cost, no maintenance. Of course, if by any chance those projects grow, I'm still likely to run it there.

Small hope/suggestion: I wish there was a free tier on Cloud SQL.
How about a vibration sensor attached on your chest below the throat connected to a raspberry pi zero?
It's obvious that for our survival we need to become interplanetary species. It's only matter of time (doesn't matter if it' 200 years or 2000 years, it will happen eventually) until meteor (or other similar event) will hit earth and only primitive life will probably survive. There is a lot more of random natural extinction events that could eliminate human beings (meteors, super viruses etc.). Additionally we create our own problems that could threaten our existence (global warming) and how many more that we don't even know (our knowledge is limited) we created?

Getting on Mars is our best bet for now, as human race. If we can colonize Mars, this will double our chances of survival.
I am actually getting more and more impressed with Azure. The rate of maturity of their offering is really impressive, and the number of world-wide regions is insane.

Wile we're primarily still AWS users, but we're hosting free global tools (check out https://teleconsole.com) on Azure for low latency.
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If it's that serious then don't get bogged down in semantics about whether he won or not.
I assume this is them -- Aaron Morganstein and Masha Mitkova?

https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2016/11/elysian-valley-couple...

If so, there's information on the GoFundMe page -- in the comments as well as the main content -- linked in the article:

https://www.gofundme.com/2zdy25w

This Gofundme was created by Justin Samenfeld, Jake Smith, and Briana Gonzales of Los Angeles, California to raise money for the search and rescue of Aaron Morganstein and Masha Mitkova. Aaron and Masha are two extraordinarily bright, family-oriented, loving individuals who come from WONDERFUL families. They are good-natured, honest, sweet, peaceful, highly intelligent, creative and genuine people who brighten up the lives of everyone around them.

More:
https://www.facebook.com/aaronandmasha
Unbelievable! I wonder which motherless record company executive is responsible for this.

This is a huge loss. WCD will be sorely missed.
Just like What was that much better Oink, I can't begin to imagine how awesome the next one will be.
> I have no idea what actually happened to cause a shutdown

Their servers were raided by the French authorities.
Put simply: They were more complete.

Spotify's library isn't even close to what WCD's was and is missing some copies of tracks/albums and/or just has the wrong versions flat out.
Yea exactly. I was thinking if a charity or organization was able to put up the money to make it happen (not just musicians pay, but facilities fees, supporting staff, etc), any extra earned through entry fees would all be donated to charity.

I don't see any reason why, especially young generations, should need monetary privilege to enjoy classical music.
It makes no sense to put time and effort into a community when it can be taken down once it becomes popular. Rather the technical issues should first be solved so that the community will grow without limits. Solutions are plenty, the will and expertise to use them .. maybe
They did release stuff from other countries. I hope they release more.

I'd imagine counter-balancing a billion dollar new conglomerate coverage of CNN, NBC, CBS and others wasn't that bad with just some emails. So wish they'd do more Eastern Europe (I am from there originally). If they had Trump material, I wish they'd release that as well.

I think I might donate to them, maybe they are understaffed and need more resources. So far I did find information there rather useful and helpful. Surprisingly more so than what I found form the traditional mass media.
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The problem with journalism and media today is that the fierce streak of journalistic independence is long, long gone; media outposts have become too connected, too hungry at the teat of the powerful for any scoop at all now that they do not have regional monopolies on information. Because of the supply of content outlets - blogs, newspapers, magazines, what have you - the power has shifted back to those that have the information in the first place. It does not matter the industry. If you are a unicorn tech startup, you build relationships with journalists that give you positive reviews, and shun those that do not -- because there are enough to go around and still get your message out, and the journos are hungry for pageviews. The same goes for CEOs and "confidential sources" on Wall Street or Main Street, or politicians gravitating toward CNN or Fox News, or respective anchors that paint them positively that ensnare the audiences they are targeting. It is the way modern PR works.

The quantity of journalists are now the surplus, and the real scoops that generate traffic (and revenue) are scarce. Because of this economic inversion, we now have the companies running the media institutions. In a mainstream economic environment, you then have two choices: media that plays into the confirmation biases of its readership (customers) - just as NYT is doing here - or investigative journalism that is digging up heretofore unknown stories people are trying to conceal (eg The Intercept, Muckrock) to get the pageviews and therefore the ad revenue.
Good on Gandi for providing a straightforward response. Living up to their motto.
"We don't compare against cars not currently in production. Our car, not currently in production, is faster."

But it's not the biggest thing in the world. :)
Will the Times ever produce objective political journalism again? Or has it just forever devolved into how can we pin this on the other side?
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I'm really curious how long NYTimes will keep their paywall down. They announced that they would take down the paywall for 72 hours leading up to the election, they haven't put it back up since.

I would guess their eroding relationship with anything Whitehouse and the potential rise of Breitbart is causing panic.
Since judges and police are both part of the state apparatus, the long-term trend will be toward cooperation at the expense of liberty for the citizenry. The path for correcting the incentives is removing one or both from the state through privatization. See the discussion on libertarianism in a sibling comment.
Largest music torrent site “What.cd” Shutdown after a raid by French authorities
I remember that! I had the pleasure of being asked that very question by Professor Forrester around 1990. (though I could answer in the affirmative).
The paywall is back up for me at this point.
I believe the FBI seized the domain names, as in, from the registrars/registries themselves. They talk about some of them being forefeited, which would have happened at registrar-level. There's nothing in there that suggested manipulation of the DNS servers themselves.
Ru is far from ideal solution, unfortunately. There's a reason it's more rutracker.org instead of torrents.ru
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> Can you remember all services you signed up for with your email? Cause I definitely didn't.

You might also want to check your browser settings to see which domains have saved cookies, saved passwords, or the "never save passwords on this domain" flag.
That's interesting. I've been checking it for days now on all my devices, work and home. No paywall.
Did a couple of projects on Firebase also (apart from my preferred Go+AppEngine) and liked it. Easy and can move fast.

Technical downside: backend processing and search & filtering are more involved.

Personal downside: Though I code in JavaScript, I'm no fan of it. Is there a good library in Go for it?
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No hope for the idea that judges and police are citizens, too?
They mean bots.
The e-mails don't have to be altered. Russians just have to make sure they get the data, filter out stuff they don't like leaving neutral and desired content and the publish the data in the right time accompanied by a specific media coverage so it gets noticed. This is information warfare. A statement that a body specifically not subject to any self-regulation mechanisms and unknown data sources (that has hurt people before, remember the Turkish leaks) is somehow more trustworthy than media, that has ages of ethical and regulatory history? Of course you have to think of what you were told, of course you need to balance your sources with al jazeera, bbc etc. But Wikileaks fits too snugly into both russian agenda and ideology (everybody is lying and our blatant fabrications ate therefore as much truth as anything) to ignore.
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Has it not been up or perhaps you just haven't hit the limit since it's been put back in place? Isn't it 10 articles or so a month?
There may be room, but you still need a market demand. The chickens were pushed into awful living conditions because those were the chickens that people were buying.
For [3], Guesstimate ( https://www.getguesstimate.com ) pretty much does that.
> When the media does everything it can to slowly erode trust

Your link provides nothing to support that comment.

Your link does clearly show people's trust in the media is extremely low, but it makes no claims as to why the trust has eroded.

There have certainly been times when various media parties have not lived up to their ethical duties, but to say blanket that the media has "done everything it can to slowly erode trust" seems exaggerated.

Do you think political party rhetoric can erode trust in the media?

One presidential candidate regularly claimed reports about him from one specific media outlet were lies, although they have turned out to be usually true [1].

One presidential candidate made claims during the debates that he did not say things which, simply, he did. The claims he denied making were well-documented on the internet, frequently from his own social media account.

Is it unreasonable to think this rhetoric had some effect on the big drop in mass media trust from supporters of that political party, documented in the gallup.com link you posted?

And would you have recommendations for ways "the media" to gain back that trust? Note that I take issue with the phrase "the media", since it's another unhelpful blanket statement.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/16/do...
> because this is probably really hard to fix.

The alternative I can think of is spreading hidden metadata files all over the place, à la Apple with their .DS_Store and AppleDouble files that everyone always complains about. That comes with its own set of problems (moving files around will lose the metadata when they're no longer in the source directory along with the metadata)
I disagree. That is only one potential issue (grabbing passwords and info from the web view) and the threat is coming from the app it self, not the content loaded.

A big issue comes from potential 3rd party browsers not being hardened to browser exploits which could circumvent device security. It may not be able to break out of the browser's security sandbox but if the browser has access to your camera, photos, contacts, etc...
I've been reading it everyday for hours (its free!) for the last week. No paywall.
The consequences aren't that dire with an FPGA. You aren't going to break anything. You can just run the synthesis tools on the design and they will tell you if the design will fit.
I agree. No progress has ever been made by giving up something lots of people want. Look at smoking, people know it will kill them, banned in most outdoor areas and that it is expensive/super taxed. The taxes doubled the price and that didn't reduce the smoking as much ecigs, a away for people to get what they with all of the benefits and fewer downsides.

Every gain we make needs to unambiguously be a gain otherwise some will choose to ignore the self restriction for their own personal gain and with CO2 we all lose when that happens.
That's them.