skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>leaks that targeted a single party and candidate?

Is there any evidence to suggest that the DNC was singled out for attack? We should be careful not to fall victim to pernicious media spin. The claims laid out in the Grizzly Steppe report are very specific:

1. In summer 2015, an APT29 spearphishing campaign directed emails containing a malicious link ...

2. ...to over 1,000 recipients, including multiple U.S. Government victims.

3. In the course of that campaign, APT29 successfully compromised a U.S. political party.

We know in retrospect that the compromised party was the DNC, but the claims presented do not indicate that the DNC was the only target. Although this is how good boys and girls are supposed to interpret the evidence, since many news media sources are spinning this as "Russia hacked the electoral process for a Trump victory", we can't start from that conclusion and work backward. Claim #2 in particular seems to indicate that the attack was broad and indiscriminate, with government and non-government targets alike.

Consider also what isn't said in this report. If they could say that the hacker groups singled out the DNC for attack, they would say so. That no such claim is made indicates that the authors know otherwise.

Finally, we have this:

4. In spring 2016, APT28 compromised the same political party, again via targeted spearphishing.

This is a separate group from the one in the previous claims. What they do not speak to is the question of who else was attacked or compromised.

Intelligence and counterintelligence is an endless game of cat and mouse that has been played for millenia. Any indication you can glean on who the next leader of the world's #1 power will be is priceless information, so none of us should be the least bit surprised that any of this is going on or that political parties would be the target of hacking attempts in an election year, by Russia, or any other nation.

Russia putting a targeted hit only on the DNC to swing the election specifically in favor of one candidate is an extraordinary claim and this report doesn't clear the bar IMHO. A far more likely hypothesis is that all renowned political organizations are a target for hacking at all times, and the DNC just had shitty security and got compromised. Too bad. Maybe turn on 2FA next time, and stop storing Top Secret material on your home server. (Even my little unknown personal server gets thousands of login attempts from China every day.)
Here we go again:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-i-know-who-hacked-sony-...

Every time some "mysterious" hacking scheme comes out, John McAfee has a formula: "I know who did it, it wasn't $BADGUY"
Of course, going into no detail regarding how difficult it is to reliably attribute attacks based on the form of software.

Also, more statements "anonymous officials" being published through WP. Literally no way to tell if they're just making this up. They could have said "Software attributed by Obama administration to Russian hacking group found on a laptop at a Vermont electrical utility company". But instead, they choose to venture down the most uncharitable and specific line of reasoning.
Seems relevant: http://i.imgur.com/aTQzGZn.png
Why is an article with only a tenuous connection to techn from an author who's written seriously about miracles existing showing up on HN?
Click on the "web" link at the top of the page which takes you to a google search. Then click on the link to the article.

If google is the referrer, the wsj lets you read the article.
You are asking about the difference between C-Corp and LLC in the US. Really, your options are:

(a) LLC

(b) S-Corp

(c) C-Corp

The rules, AFAIK but IANAL:

- Sole proprietorship (single person) can file taxes for an entity with TIN as LLC, S-Corp, or C-Corp

- S-Corp can elect to file as a C-Corp at any time

- C-Corp can issue multiple classes of shares; S-Corp cannot

- Easy to convert from an S-Corp to a C-Corp

- Difficult to convert from a C-Corp to an S-Corp

- LLC has lowest setup cost

- C-Corp requires you to pay double taxes on some income.

- LLC and S-Corp taxation effectively identical

In my opinion it makes sense to incorporate an LLC, then decide between filing taxes as LLC or S-Corp at the end of the first tax year. If at any time you want to raise investment, file the requisite paperwork to convert the S-Corp into a C-Corp.
There are a ton of simple experiments that can be done in the lab that aren't being done by the people claiming that this thing works. The article mentions a few. The people launching something are going to get another inconclusive result with a high price. At least it isn't tax dollars.
I think that the reason they aren't seen enforcing views on human rights is many of their views aren't compatible with most American/European definitions of human rights.
Not just that, the title is completely inaccurate. The most relevant part of the articles title, "OFFICIALS SAY" is absent.

Its the difference between:

WMD found in Iraq.

and

WMD found in Iraq, officials say.
What you're doing is putting the client on notice that (a) you're going to have to travel to complete the engagement and (b) they're on the hook for it. From there, things usually proceed as if you were an employee rather than a consultant: you ask them how you should book the travel, and you get it reimbursed later on.
It's "saber rattling" until the foreign power actually causes severe disruption in the systems they hack into (either accidentally or on purpose).
I'm sorry if you read that as though we do not engage in hacking at all. That's not what I was saying.
Well, while I don't necessarily agree with the articulation of the top level post, but I agree with the sentiment. And I agree with your remark that the capability of appreciating nuance is fundamental.

What I'd ask for is this: I'd like a standard by which the government claiming "Evidence of X" from some special committee is no longer treated as carte-blanche.

I see no problem with asking for evidence from every such major government claim, and it seems it could have saved us 1.7 trillion dollars and the last two wars if we [as a public, as a country] had practiced this mentality sooner.

1. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
patio11, why does the ToS page on Appointment Reminder still list your name as the one the agreement is with?

https://new.appointmentreminder.org/terms-of-service/
Didn't some Russian politician already admit that they tried to help Trump and what's the big deal?

Didn't Putin even hint at it in some way during the run up to the election?

I mean what do people want a statement from the Kremlin that they tried to help Trump? I thought Americans knew that Russia has invested billions in Trumps real estate businesses, hence the close relationship with Putin and the fact that Trump will never release his tax returns.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/12/19/the-curious-...

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/...
Evidence of Russian Election Hacking Is Inconclusive
Considering they need to inform everyone of this, think of strategies to effectively combat ivory trading, etcetera, 1 year is a very small time period.
Largely a rehash of all the other discussions on the subject. No, it doesn't provide much new evidence, but also some claim that it wasn't really supposed to.

Anyway, one particular component I'm curious about, is the new list of IP addresses that were released[0]. I've been following the story only somewhat closely, but I believe that was genuinely new evidence that came out. Is there a public DB somewhere that lists what we know of IP addresses and their known malware activity? Some other post on HN mentioned that "30+%" of them were simply Tor endpoints and VPSs/VPNs, which obviously don't say very much. But I don't really know of a way to get a feel for how interesting this new data the government released is, or if that 30% claim is accurate.

[0] https://www.us-cert.gov/security-publications/GRIZZLY-STEPPE...
Have a look at the sunlight foundation apis. I know they have one that spells out donations. (it was US based the last I worked with their datasets in detail, but the goal was to grow and it's been several years).
That's an interesting perspective. Can you elaborate? How do you think that public sector unions are disadvantaged by not having enough information? Do you think that rewarding them with an enormous supplementary pension fixes the market for their labour?
A friend wrote an article about a NYC millennial who put herself through college collecting cans: http://bit.ly/2aj0IG7
I think he's saying that government officials should have absolutely no credibility given their long and nearly perfect track-record of always being wrong. The real tragedy isn't that government officials have no credibility, its that so many Americans fail to grasp this indisputable truth.
I think that's the point a lot of people don't get. Obama, despite having hacked the world is scared of the same shit happening to the US. He actually feels vulnerable and scared. So he's giving Russians shit for it.
The difference is the magnitude. In world war II, people would work months to decode single paragraph messages. Now people work weeks to take over their adversaries entire communication and control systems.

I think we are coming into a very difficult time, where human nature and habit are coming head-to-head with ubiquitous, all-knowing clandestine surveillance. It has patently been too much to ask a 69 year old secretary of state and her aging staff to comprehend the complexity and non-negotiable nature of information security.
Yeah, the first few opening comments were crickets, everything later on was superb. Did anyone else notice how the host just didn't give a single fuck?
> he is unhappy that some dirty laundry
> on Hillary was released to the voters

Even the Ecuadorians were pretty pissed off about it[0], and they seem to have no problem giving the US the finger

> even after Assange ... have assured us

It's funny, I find Snowden very very credible, but Assange I find not-in-the-least credible. Also I can't find a source for this, just "an associate of" Assange -- this[1] is the best source I could find, and it's ... weird.

> You should be unhappy that Obama has
> been sabre rattling against Russia
> for years

Hrm[2].

[0] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f997f97c5f140a29f385ea05f1b6...

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4034038/Ex-British-a...

[2] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/...
Sorry - did you want to correct me? That's how I interpreted your comment; perhaps I was mistaken.
"Growing up using 2 stroke weedeaters and chainsaws I had no idea how polluting they are."

Terribly polluting. However, my understanding is that there is no potential for "fixing" chainsaws since a 4 stroke engine cannot run upside down - which is a requirement for a chainsaw.

Am I mistaken ?

Luckily we're starting to see a lot of battery operated chainsaws come onto the market with higher density Li-ion batteries. We're demoing a dewalt[1] chainsaw at my fire department and I have been using a Bosch reciprocating saw with a brush blade for light tree work for two years now ... but this is all light duty stuff and cannot replace large chainsaws...

[1] http://www.dewalt.com/products/power-tools/outdoor-power-equ...
This seems like a stretch as HRW has been one of the main organizations casting a light on CIA torture: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/10/03/us-ex-detainees-describe...
They should pass laws, but so should the west. The poultry/egg and fishing industry is unquestionably unethical. And much of the dairy and beef industry would have to improve as well.

Again, not trying to say China shouldn't. But am pointing out that it's a bit of throwing a stone in a glass house.
Indeed they live with family and the can money go to gambling at all those Chinese seniors clubs. A woman who used to clean out the cans here now hires other women to do it and runs a little recycling empire that ends up on the Mahjong table.

There's also a culture of no waste from that generation my friend's grandmother was more than wealthy but refused to eat with plates snacking with newspaper plates she made and grew a large crop of food in their front yard selling it to corner stores every year. She also would dig out clothing out of trash bins, wash and slice up the fabric to sew different clothes she also sold but didn't need to being fairly wealthy.
>It has patently been too much to ask a 69 year old secretary of state and her aging staff to comprehend the complexity and non-negotiable nature of information security.

You're being ageist.
I love the "A Bit More" button. Such a brilliant idea.
I am not arguing about the crime changes over the past 20 years. The original article was about crime changes in the past few years, based on changes to policy in the last few years. I think the changes to crime policy implemented twenty years ago were good, and good impacts on crime. But the changes in the past few years are bad, and will result in an increase in crime.

Pretending a 49% drop over 20 years is sustainable continuously with no outliers is...absurd. ... As Pew has reported in recent years, in fact, the American public is "unaware" that the homicide rate in the United States has fallen by 49 percent over the past twenty years.

In my city, the homicide rate is still 5X higher than it was in 1950s. That's hundreds of people dead each year, unnecessarily. And that's after dramatic improvements in medical technology! I have a lot higher standards than a 50% decline since the 1990 peak. Let's get it back down to the 1950s level.
Yes, I do think that it's possible. To get Google to do it? No. To get a bunch of smaller companies to do it? NCC is larger than most YC startups, and this is how we did recruiting there.

I have thoughts on how I'd do contingency recruiting differently if I had to do it over again, and I have thoughts on what I think a better model for this would be than trying to do contingency recruiting from day one.

What I don't want to do is write them up in HN comments that will further sap me of any will to do a real writeup.
I know, it's strange, isn't it? I've read that some fifty elephants are killed every day. Fifty a day!

Undoubtedly, the announcement will only spur poachers to work overtime and make money while the making is good.

Then there's the question of enforcement.

Thousands more will die before this senseless slaughter finally stops, if it ever does.
Yes, and our (larger) acquirer, NCC Group.
> But Russia and China don't go around enforcing human rights and their morality on other countries.

Russia literally invaded a neighbor two years ago...
I highly suggest fountain pens, I like Lamy. I feel like I can write a lot more without fatigue. You don't have to press as hard. Also, if you're not a person that loses pens they end up being cheaper.

I also found that A5 grid paper on Amazon for a little cheaper[1]. But I'm curious how well the binding holds up. Because if it holds well it'd be a great switch for me.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Midori-MD-Notebook-Grid-Paper/dp/B009...
Add in all of the people who have found God and I guess the story checks out
Creator of NSA’s Global Surveillance System Calls B.S. On Russian Hacking Report
I relate closely to this post, especially the position that working remotely is for a certain kind of introvert only.

To such an extent do I relate to it that I wrote a blog post about it a year ago:

https://likewise.am/2015/12/18/why-i-love-industrious-and-ab...

This post struck a similar note:

Working from home might genuinely be the ideal environment for those closest to the introvert end of the spectrum, and I think those are the people who form angelic choirs of blog posts asking if you have met their lord and savior, the Fortress of Infinite Solitude, Home Office Edition. For them, the quiet work environment makes their jobs dramatically more enjoyable. But for me, it was the opposite: I’d gone from management (high social interaction) to software development (lower social interaction), and from working in an office (hundreds of people) to working from home (two cats), and expected that this would all be fine.
I attempted the trial, and when faced with a login requirement (with Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Github), I just left the site.

Even an email signup wouldn't be fine for me. I don't want any achievements to brag about. I just wanted to learn and/or contribute.
Admittedly, a generalized diagram from a press release is not direct evidence. A diagram only serves to clarify a concept in terms clearer than a passage of text.

It's true that any actor in an espionage/sabotage operation will attempt to obscure their hand in the matter, and obvious evidence should be treated with suspicion. One might be tempted to conclude that the anticipation of evidence among actors renders actual evidence collection futile.

Unfortunately, John McAfee's hypothesis is not backed by evidence at all. It's just his gut instinct.

I wonder if John McAfee's methodology of inverting evidence, by way of evidence tampering/obscuring motives, holds up against other scenarios. Stuxnet, or Snowden leaks for example.

Sure, all *THOSE* things *LOOK* like
they originate from the NSA, but that
what you're *SUPPOSED* to think, mannn!
Tempting to make a system that captures publicly posted photos of boarding passes. Then email the poster a warning along with proof of the personal information that they made available. However, I suspect this could get one in trouble.
Is memcache still in heavy use? It seems like everyone I see has replaced it with Redis, but I don't know if this is a real tendency or the HN bubble/magpie developer effect.
> A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.

First question: what is "Grizzly Steppe"? I thought it was the name given to the actions by both APT28 and APT29. Is this article claiming that somehow this campaign is related to the DNC / Podesta campaign? Or just that the malware involved was the same one used there and therefore probably something done by one or the other. And by "a code associated with", I wonder what that means? The Grizzly Steppe document released yesterday included things like "Powershell backdoor" as associations with APT28/29, but that can't be what they mean here, right?

> This week, officials from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shared the Grizzly Steppe malware code with executives from 16 sectors nationwide, including the financial, utility and transportation industries, a senior administration official said. Vermont utility officials identified the code within their operations and reported it to federal officials Friday, the official said.

So was this the PAS_TOOL_PHP_WEB_KIT Yara signature in the document released yesterday then? Or is there more unreleased info that the FBI and DNI released to those executives?
I had a similar experience recently with a well funded startup. There is no doubt that I can do the job well, as I helped with one of their engineers as a vendor. I corrected one of their components several times, when my contact there reached out to me for advice.

But my resume wasn't bulletproof (decent school, some job hopping) and I didn't express the requisite awe about their product or technical tasks (I gave my assessment that they have a good business plan but should expect modest growth, and the engineering tasks needed would be tedious to anyone honest). That's all I can think of, because I sure as hell didn't answer any questions incorrectly.

Also, for all my efforts, they ghosted on me afterwards.
I think though that if an equivalent study found opposite results and the BBC wrote "Men write better code", there would be even far greatee uproar at how deliberately misleading that is.

You invent an enemy (the linked article, "anti-SJW"), and then attempt to "brush off" what is clearly a misleading and likely agenda-fueled article, which as per the MSM definition is "fake news.

Also be aware that your "brush-off" and "oh it's not that bad" argument is identical to "sexists" claiming the "wage gap" doesn't exist...the very people you clearly are opposed to by the sounds if it.
Electric brush cutter. We live on 10 acres and do lots of trimming so having a rechargeable and relatively-quiet tool to grab and do a bit whenever we have spare time is truly awesome.

Not worrying about fuel, oil, etc is great and turns trimming from a proper "job" to "Ill just do a bit of trimming while waiting for dinner". It has been one of the biggest and best improvements to our daily farm chores in years.
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I totally agree the West needs to improve animal welfare even further. But SOME cruelty laws are better than NONE, which is why I bring up China more. But you're totally right, there's awful stuff going on here, too.
Well, the cookie notice also only is ridiculous if taken out of context.

You literally have the cookie notice in your post, too, as the law simply states:

If you collect any tracking data about a user that's not technically required, you have to let them opt in.

This obviously means tracking cookies have to be opt in, and that's how the cookie notice came to be.

Technical cookies, such as login cookies, are exempt, obviously, but other tracking methods, such as storing in localStorage are included.
Smaller resolution that my 18 month old Chromebook Pixel in a larger size, and with fewer nits. It's a disappointment is what it is. I'm in love with the laptop otherwise, but I've had two X1s already and the screens were some of the worst I've ever used.
I didn't intend to come across that way, and I was just editing a last line about how this is a problem of mindset: pride and willful ignorance.
I meant that easy and intuitive UIs, in generic, are the dream/goal of designers/managers, not necessarily this one in particular, since ToDo apps are so simple.

You made a good point about low level programmers. As a former assembly programmer that did lots of bit operations on 80386 processors I do understand your point. My apologies.
The 4 core ones (HQ series) have not been released yet. They're supposed to be out Jan/Feb.
Let me rephrase, if for no other reason than to give you the ability to retreat to some other anatomical metaphor:

This box, with a i7-6600U, routinely idles with the screen on at 5.5-6W with a current kernel (spending almost all of that in PC7 per powertop). Your ideas about Linux power management are just plain misinformed.
"How do you do my fellow developer"
It is hard for me to reconcile:

1) "Tokyo is a wonderful city and I love it a lot – enough to not regret the rent"

2) "the balance in my Excel file went progressively negative. This was expected, but caused me a bit of stress."

Ogaki is a city where Patrick successfully launched his first startup - Bingo Card Creator.

Patrick met his wife in Ogaki.

Then McKenzie family moved to Tokyo, which "helped" Patrick:

- to fail at his another startup - Starfighter and converted him from entrepreneur to an employee;

- "not felt as effective as a husband / father";

- to accumulate "health debt".

What is so "wonderful" about Tokyo and what is there "to love"?
i have a chumby and the fact that it was designed to ran flash apps was a bad decision from the get go. that and the fact you could only stream apps and not download them.
I'm curious, why hasn't anyone worked with ground effect vehicles (things like wing-in-plane) in an urban setting. It seems like commuting from South SF <-> Mountain View would be greatly smoothed by introducing GEVs without a ridiculous cost.