skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be willing to bet the 100 person start up you're part of is largely of a different demographic than the parent's DNC staff group.
I thought about that before pressing submit and then I remembered that my mother's skin is "brown", the same as my brother's (I was the "lucky" one between me and my brother who inherited the "white" skin from my dad), that they both (my mother and my brother) have been called "gipsies" because of that, and that I've been thinking for quite some time what differentiates people and people's cultures and their perspective in life. It's not the color of their skin, it's the cultural choices they make (the "read a book part" and not begging in the street for some easy gains), if people want to call me bigoted/racist so be it.
Hmmm. Seeing as they've been quiet for a long time my impression was that they simply stopped being viable or relevant, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
> Getting the inside scoop on a very large chunk of the federal workforce has "nothing to do with the fundamentals of our democracy"?

Yes. It has nothing to do with the fundamentals of our democracy. It absolutely has to do with the fundamentals of our government, but how we elect that government is not directly effected.

>If you have some evidence that Obama did something then present it. If not, just wishful thinking.

I obviously have no evidence, but I think it's more educated guess than wishful thinking considering that high level government officials have publicly said that's the M.O.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/politics/biden-hints-at...
Valid point, but I should clarify my original comment: I don't find either aspect of the attack--the entry or the payload--to be particularly sophisticated.

Everything I've read indicates the bulk of work was done by Powershell scripts, along with a backdoor process running in the open. If you told me that the backdoor was a kernel level rootkit or something similar then I could get onboard, but as it stands I don't think the attack's complexity is a solid argument for "Russia did it"
Rust is an overly complicated language that made the exact same deadly mistakes that c++ made: takes too long to compile and is too complex.
Yes I get it, you're working on the compile times. You will never bring them down to under 1 second regardless of amount of libraries used, let's just say this once and for all. I add two crates 'hyper' and 'postgres-rs' in a 500 line(!!!) program and it's STILL a 2.8 second compile time. Imagine if I actually use Rust for real software and have 500k lines of code.
I'm putting my hopes on Jonathan Blow's Jai language.
Well you could, but it comes at a cost (in dollars, complexity and weight), and is likely not worth it since the bike still needs friction brakes.

It's a different story with a 50 ton train where a 20 KW resistor bank is not a significant amount of weight, but adding a 500W resistor bank to a bike (since you need somewhere for energy to go when the battery is fully charged) is probably not going to be worth the weight and expense.

Plus you need some sort of blending between regenerative and friction braking, so it's yet another thing that needs adjusted and maintained.
I don't know. Analogously there was a long period when IE dominated, and you could make a case that the web browser was a natural monopoly, and trying to compete would at best just end up in a different monopoly. I'm glad someone went ahead and challenged it anyway. An oligopoly is better for us than a monopoly; a two-party state is much better than a one-party state; and with a mechanism in place for competition, a monopolist must act more like a competitive firm even when the competition remains only potential.
And compact development produces on average about 10 times more tax revenue per acre.

So the author of this article is trying to sell this approach based on the "benefit" of tax revenue per acre? Is that (should that be) the primary goal of a city's design... to squeeze out as many tax dollars as possible from every square inch of space?

The main problem with compact development (my observation) is the HOA fees that tend to be baked into owning in one of these "compact" developments. These fees are very often ostentatious and do not map out to actual costs of building or maintaining shared infrastructure "compactly". And let's not even get into the pitfalls of CCRs that disallow pet ownership, fine members for paint colors, etc.
Interesting, I had never heard of that. Here's some more info on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_acne#Causes
Only if they were the sources of inspiration. What I'm trying to suggest to you is that similar ideas to those put forward by Leary and Wilson existed before either of those two individuals were born. With that in mind, why are you convinced these two individuals are being plagarised? Can you point to any passages that reminded you of their works?
Employee Happiness App – MEAN Stack and Ionic
Stumbled across this app on the ionic (hybrid framework) showcase and thought it was really neat. Cool life hack for work.

http://showcase.ionicframework.com/apps/top

https://www.GetHappster.com/
This isn't a good idea. Productize it.
What metros in the U.S. don't offer the opportunity to go to a forest?

SF: Muir Woods (available by bus), a dozen other forests by car.

NYC: Liberty State park, Jersey City.

Miami: Everglades, a 30 minute drive from Miami Beach in no traffic

DC: Rock Creek Park

Dallas: Roosevelt Park
Expand that to questioning also whether time exists as we perceive it and you have a real mindfuck there.

If you can't even convince yourself that you will experience the future then there is no reason to do anything. Suppose every moment you are transferred into the head of a different person. Or let's say that time runs backwards. What possible motivation do you have to do anything? Why take your hand away from a hot stove if you have no evidence that you will experience the after effects?
A stop should provide almost as much energy as starting back up again. How about an e-bike with a fixed gear? You get assist when starting, but pedal yourself at speed, regen to stop, and perhaps some option to charge the battery via the pedals that's up to the rider.

The most unusual thing I ever saw in my EV days... We had a full Ford Focus Electric on a chassis dyno to debug some problems. After several hours of tuning and data collection we realized the car needed to be charged to get it back to our own facility. The dyno place had no high power chargers. So we set the dyno somewhere around 40mph, put the car in drive and left it. With no foot on the gas it would do a light regeneration at that speed. The strange part is that we sat around a table to analyze the days data about 5 feet from the car. We're at a table next to a car tied down and going 40mph and its almost dead silent charging via regen. Analysis done, car charged, untie it and off we went ;-)
I agree. C is fast because it can be unsafe. Skip all the safety checks and run like hell (if you need or want to). We don't care what size that array is, we just want to go really fast. Safety checks come with a performance cost. Rust claims to be faster than C and safer than C at the same time. That's not possible.
Show HN: The easiest way to track and journal what you do.
> A world where complete system crashes in software are as rare as car crashes

A hilariously wrong/misleading analogy in an otherwise compelling and agreeable blog post.
The 10 year old tape of Trump making crude sexual comments was leaked obviously to disrupt Trump's campaign. A lot of people believed it would destroy his chances.

Unflattering leaks are part and parcel of Presidential campaigns, on both sides. It's why candidates get "vetted", meaning digging up as much dirt as possible in advance to see if it can be dealt with or if it disqualifies the candidate.
I live near London so I'm a bit of an outlier, but housing is by far my largest expenditure, double that of food and approximately 7 times that of vehicles/transport.

Also (AIUI) in the US most of the cost of education is in huge loans taken out by the child.
that bit hes bolded isnt key is it?

the singluarity isnt "ai making new ai"

the singularity is ai solving problems that we cant - "greater than human intelligence."

which has basically already arrived. albeit bounded such that we still have ultimate control over what problems we direct ai to solve.
Ask HN: Anyone Running a Razer Blade Stealth with Linux?
Basically title.

I'm looking for a new laptop to run Linux (probably Ubuntu), and I'm wondering if anyone here has exprience with the Razer Blade Stealth, as it seemed to be well recommended in recent discussion.
Could you please tell more about borrow checker issues?
>It's worse than the phase Java went through when it hit its peak.

As a person who lived through the 1990s Java hype and had a bookshelf full of the official Java books (Addison-Wesley white books)[1], the Rust evangelism is nowhere near that level.

To refresh the memory, 1990s Java evangelists predicted:

1) C/C++ would become obsolete because in the age of abundant desktop resources (cpu power and more RAM), the GC would take care of all that

2) Java's "write-once-run-anywhere" JVM would render the Windows operating system obsolete and weaken the evil Microsoft

3) Java applets so you could create rich dynamic websites in the browser

As we now know, none of that actually happened. Java is still a success but it couldn't match the breathless press it initially received.

Yes, this particular Rust blog promising "salvation" seems to defy Fred Brook's more conservative "no silver bullet".[2] But relatively speaking, Rust's enthusiastic community is fairly tame.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/8gLe4

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
Left out of this equation is perhaps the most important number to buyers: price. All of these numbers show us how much more efficient it is to serve households in urban environments, and how much more tax revenue it yields for governments -- but that is not passed along to buyers.

For example, the suburban house that I paid $350K for 15 miles away from downtown would cost a $1M if I wanted a similarly appointed condo in the city. And that excludes the additional taxes, building fees (which can be substantial), and parking costs.
Although others don't see the 'dark cloud', as a long time user of Rust it has definitely put me off pushing for it too hard at work. That said, Diesel and Serde are now the only big libs that require nightly, but this is due to them relying on syntax extensions which are going to be stabilized in the next release. So if I were to start a new microservice using those libs it would be ready to go on stable in a few weeks time, which is super exciting. The only other thing would be async IO. Tokio is making big strides in that direction - not sure what the time-frame is on being able to use it on a server nicely though.
Every Democrat and most Republicans?
I agree that effect will exist, but it remains to be seen when it will kick in.

Ie, if there are big improvements left to be made then that network effect can be overcome a few times by each 'big leap' change. Once the market matures though, you probably will see strong lock-in as you describe.
While the methods used were very simple, I have an opinion why this could be done for some government or political party. The emails and data from a political party are probably very boring stuff, so a typical hacker would not bother to spend a lot of time sending thousands of phishing emails to get access to them. And later he would have to read through them to find some facts the mass media would be interested in. Usually hackers hunt for things like credit card numbers or fame.
Speaking of which, perhaps someone can shed some light on the suggested friends feature. Many people suspected it uses GPS/Wifi to perform location based friend suggestions, as well as contact book uploading. However, it doesn't really explain my own case:

I recently encountered a friend suggestion for someone that I only know online (IRC and later, Google Hangout). I don't really know who they are other than a name (as exposed by GHangout). I've never met them as they are in a completely different country. I don't have the facebook app and the messenger app is forbidden to read my contacts as per CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard. I fail to understand how FB can suggest this? The only possible reason I can think of is when they searched my name on Facebook. How else can they do it?
According to Canonical, it _is_ GPL compatible. Either way, that shouldn't get in the way of the best file system in existence being used with the kernel of last resort.
TOP KEK!
The Obama administration announced they will release evidence about the hack in "3 weeks". So they will be making the case. It will obviously just be redacted.
The Year in Government Hacking: 2016 in Review
Humans don't perceive their reality on absolute terms. They perceive them on relative terms. Though the stats may be correct in absolute terms, the experience that individuals have are significantly different and shared by perceptions of how they are doing vs. how other people in their social group or country are doing... and what hopes they have for the future. From that perspective people in the West are very cynical/pessimistic and miserable because of it.

So relative poverty is what matters and also the ability to look into the future and see greener pastures. People in the West don't see this happening. Instead they see more competition for ever dwindling jobs. See corporations that do not want to treat them fairly. See governments which are not on their side... etc. etc. This is distressing.

So they dismiss findings that things are getting better for poor people as propaganda. Because those people are not in their social group and the information does not apply to their experience of reality.
or "10 Reasons Why Everything You Know About Rust Is Wrong"... ;)
Current implementation uses the local chrome storage api (chrome.storage.local). Could probably swap that out for the sync api (chrome.storage.sync). Haven't tried that yet though https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage#type-Storage...
hasnt this tech been known for a year now.

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/12/uncover...

Its been taught in my security class.
Another couple of flaws that could have a big impact on Rust.

- It will be super hard to hire for Rust for a long time. It would be a very bold move to write your app in Rust if you plan to grow your tech team anytime soon.

- I havn't tried learning Rust myself, but I have read that little that it can be a little tricky to start thinking the rust way (borrowing?) Plus the language "looks" hardcore. I wonder if that will put off new devs.
And it is not. It is not faster than C but it can be almost as fast someday.
> the point of this report is not to justify the punitive actions taken today.

You mean the point of the persons who wrote it? Probably not.

But the intent of those who decided to release it today? It most likely was. If so many HN commenters--sophisticated computer users and people with cognitive abilities way above average--feel like it doesn't go without saying, how many CNN or Fox News will realise it doesn't make the case against Russian?

They'll just remember that some documents were released by some US intel agencies, proving that the Russians did "it" (without even a clear idea of what "it" might be), while the US govt punished them. That's good enough for people who saw no problem with going to war against Iraq because of 9/11.

What worries me is that all of this Russian hackers + Fake News agitprop is that it looks like a perfect prelude to justify Internet censorship in Western democracies. When Internet allowed Obama to "steal" the Democratic party from Clinton in 2008, it was OK: maybe a bit embarrassing, but his policies weren't really that different from hers. But in 2016, with Sanders almost stealing the party again, and Trump taking the GOP then the general election by storm, politicians and their sponsors realised they didn't effectively influence voters through mainstream media any more. They've finally realised how scared they should be of Internet, and they'll want to "civilise" it, i.e. make it as controllable as billionaire-owned TV channels and newspaper. I hope they'll fail, but some of them will try to.
Hang on.

The original article that kicked off the 'Rust is mostly safety' article was a call for a change in the marketing material[1], away from the 'Rust is safe' narrative. It's not an attractive narrative (IMO) and the point that Klabnik was making was that Rust is more than 'just' safety.

'Rust is mostly Safety' was written in a sense disagreeing (depends on your interpretation) with Klabnik's article that Rust is much more than safety. Now, yes, these posts (namely the 'Rust is more than safety' and 'Rust is mostly safety' are not discussing the negatives of rust, absolutely, but it's not the scope of the posts to do so, it's not what that particular discussion is about and they should be exempted from this broad brush.

You've taken a quote from the Klabnik post, which is itself quoted from an initial release announcement, which is basically guaranteed to be a spot of marketing. As always, there is a time and a place for the discussion of trade offs and negatives.

A release announcement is not the place for this.

Nor is a discussion of changing the tone of the marketing of the language.

Now, finally turning my attention to the article in the post...well, that strikes me as a place to discuss some negatives. I am not super comfortable with basically listing all the cons of C and well, not even discussing the pros of Rust but presenting it as a panacea.

I think it doesn't quite hit the point of Klabnik's article which to me was more about stopping marketing based on what Rust stops you from doing and marketing Rust more on what it lets you do.

[1] http://words.steveklabnik.com/rust-is-more-than-safety
At least the report is short. As others have stated, it doesn't really lay out any new evidence to believe the Russian government was behind the hack. It lays out information that almost looks like evidence, such as a list of usernames, but doesn't discuss how the information is relevant to anything. There is an assertion that three teams were involved, and that two teams communicated with each other, but no discussion of where this information comes from or why anyone should care how many teams there were. I get the feeling that there's a message for someone, but I'm certainly not the intended recipient.

The advice on avoiding similar hacks in the future is a grab bag. Near the end it encourages using /etc/shadow on POSIX systems. I installed Linux on my personal computer in 1999. Since then, I've installed several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Inferno, etc. I can't remember any installation offering to store password hashes in /etc/passwd. Some of the advice is better, but not all of it is. I'm honestly disappointed. Perhaps this is a wake-up to somebody, but I would hope Sony's hack would have already served that purpose.
I wrote a similar system for my own home quite a while ago. It didn't have all the features of Zuckerberg's but it had a lot of things it doesn't too.

The real mystery is why do all the existing home automation systems kind of stink. Although it's not much of a mystery, it's because every company wants to be proprietary and no one wants to work together because if the system is closed they can get you to buy their hardware exclusively.
Tomorrow: "Cyberhacker admits to Russian hacker tools"

> Yesterday, an Internet cyber hacker using the alias "cmdrfred" claimed on "HackerNews", an elite underground hacker site, that he or she personally built the hacking tools used by Russia to breach the DNC email servers and change the outcome of the recent election.

> "I have personally written that exact tool [it] uses ... encryption ... so you can access [the DNC] without fear."

> "I'm as good as a state level intelligence team."

> cmdrfred went on to taunt American intelligence agencies while admitting that he was aware that elite anti-cyberhacking teams from the NSA and CIA were monitoring his operations.

> The owner of HackerNews Paul Graham -- venture capitalist, flamboyant playboy, and known Russian sympathizer -- could not be reached for comment.
If I may extrapolate...

I think people can be disingenuous to their almost intuitive longing to satisfy curiousity. They're taught to filter outside information to what fits their sandbox. For most information that is orthogonal, it passes through such filter, for inorthogonal information, they either shape it to make explainable using their axioms or reject/deny it.
The rust zealots say it is, "Better performance than C"

That's from the linked article 'Rust is Software's Salvation' (bullet point 3).
$17k/month in consulting is actually not too much. For 22 working days, 8hrs a day, for about $100/hour you can earn $17k month.
Claiming that political things are political is a bit like complaining water is wet
>"Both the FBI and CIA have publicly stated they believe the hacks came from Russia."

Let's imagine you're the President and you discover the leaks came from US citizens with ties to the DNC (e.g. DNC employees with access to emails). Would you have anything to gain from pointing the finger at foreign political actors interfering in US politics?
That is very much possible in many cases. Zero cost abstractions exist: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
Regardless of political views, it has been disheartening to see so many organizations and leaders throw tantrums on the public stage - it deligitimizes authority and erodes trust.
The voice of those commercials, Dave Bickler, was previously best known for his vocals on "Eye of the Tiger"
I agree. We are making the same mistakes Fred Brooks talks about in "No Silver Bullets".
nothing is scaring me as a programmer who use Rust, but I wish to see in such debates more people who at least tried to use Rust more than 2 months, before arguing :) And I just hope this "week of Rust" on HN will attract more people to try Rust. We have cookies and community is very friendly - welcome!
> Do you think the British and Americans were going to publish stories about Enigma back in WW2 in the Times during the war? There were like a handful of people in the world who knew the details.

Well they plan on releasing the malware samples and evidence of the hack, so I'm not sure what you mean here...

This isn't the enigma in war time. It's not even a denied operation like Stuxnet (which was also had malware samples found in the wild and plenty of details on how it was spread and worked). It's standard nation state malware from a foreign adversary and the phishing email was already released from the Podesta hack via Wikileaks.

The only question is how they connected the public leaks to Russia. Which most people doubt they even have. But that detail won't stop the press from believing it was one and the same. Even though any number of people could have accessed it.

But otherwise simply connecting the hack to Russia and the hack itself is hardly a mystery or interesting in itself. You're very much overselling that which I'll just attribute to not knowing much about infosec.

From NYTimes:

>> The samples of malware were in what the Obama administration called a “joint analytic report” from the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security that was based in part on intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency. A more detailed report on the intelligence, ordered by President Obama, will be published in the next three weeks, though much of the detail — especially evidence collected from “implants” in Russian computer systems, tapped conversations and spies — is expected to remain classified.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/us/politics/russia-elec...

Obviously they won't release every detail, especially regarding implants in Russia, but they'll release more than just 'trust us'. They always do.