skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But they didn't do any of that either.

They most certainly did. DWS and company actively worked internally to disparage and scuttle the Sanders campaign and push HRC, ultimately resulting in DWS resigning in shame. The DNC leadership's bias was obvious, and the leaked emails that came out before the convention provided sufficient evidence that Sanders' supporters had been right about the DNC not playing fair with the candidates (though still not rigging the primaries). I don't think the narrative about the DNC's pro-Clinton/anti-Sanders bias and internal activity ever got out of control. Seems it stayed pretty level, and it's ultimately a separate matter from the current issue as far as I'm concerned anyway.
this is such a tired internet cliche.

in reality the bank will force you into bankruptcy, seize all your assets because they're at the top of the payback list, and blacklist you from ever running a business or borrowing money again.

in other words, you lose.
> You can get your human dynamic just fine on sidewalks, cafes, parks, etc.

More density means fewer [EDIT: more] people within walking distance of each café, park and restaurant. That, in turn, affects how many of them there are and how eclectic they can be.

Density is people over space. If you give each person more space, you reduce density. This can't be avoided.

> nothing like the hour-plus train rides middle-class people in cities currently need to endure

They don't need to endure it. Stamford, CT and Rochester or Port Jefferson, NY are nice cities with middling densities.

But many people don't want that. They want restaurants and nightclubs and parks with rotating art installations that only emerge and make sense when you pack people together.

Sure, you can put one or two large units in the mix without screwing things up. But not a lot, not for everyone. Else you end up with urban deserts.
I'd highly recommend checking out Nylas N1 (https://github.com/Nylas/N1). It's beautiful, cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and extensible via a plugin architecture borrowed from Atom. Nylas is currently working on a version that doesn't require the backend "Nylas Cloud" APIs and will connect to IMAP / Exchange directly.

(disclosure: I was the Nylas N1 team lead from 2014-Dec 2016.)
Excellent link, thank you.
The secret email server is actually more interesting than you think. They found hundreds of emails containing classified info (including TS info, like a picture of NK that one of the media guys talks about in the dump). We also have an email between Hillary & Colin Powell discussing how to subvert the Presidential Records Act.

Read the PDF on here for more:
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30324

This is part of what Colin Powell said that I think it especially illustrative of how big of a security risk people like this are when put in power:

Now, the real issue had to do with PDAs, as we called them a few years ago before BlackBerry became a noun. And the issue was DS would not allow them into the secure spaces, especially up your way. When I asked why not they gave me all kinds of nonsense about how they gave out signals that could be read by spies, etc. Same reason they tried to keep mobile phones out of the suite. I had numerous meetings with them. We even opened one up for them to try to explain to me why it was more dangerous than say, a remote control for one of the many tvs in the suite. Or something embedded in my shoe heel. They never satisfied me and NSA/CIA wouldn't back off. So, we just went about our business and stopped asking. I had an ancient version of a PDA and used it. In general, the suite was so sealed that it is hard to get signals in or out wirelessly.
Normative speech (often using the word "should") means "I have reason to believe". "Reason" usually being based on some a priori[0] knowledge.

"we should be able to do x with y"

"y should just work"

"users should be able to k"

In a problem space such as software, where extreme complexity bordering on chaos is the norm, we we see little evidence supporting common claims of an expected outcome given reason from some fashion of first principles.

"Rails should work just fine for this", given some principles about Rails.

The problem with the above statement is that you cannot possibly take into account the entire complexity of the final implementation of the appropriate solution beyond the most trivial example.

Marsh's first law of software: The complete behavior of any sufficiently useful computer program cannot be reasoned about by a human in polynomial time.[1]

Should is a smell. The only should I trust is a passing test.

Sorry if that's clear as mud. I've been working to come up with a good explanation for my "normative speech has no place in software" axiom and I'm not sure I've nailed it quite yet.

0: From Wikipedia: A priori knowledge is independent of experience, as with mathematics (3,000 + 2,000 = 5,000), tautologies ("All bachelors are unmarried"), and deduction from pure reason (e.g., ontological proofs).

1: Yes I'm referencing my own made up law. Prove it wrong.
Yes, and? Smoking has never been outlawed; although, many have tried. I applaud demand reduction in lieu of prohibition. Once prohibition is in place, look out!
What is the boundary between what we consider "fake news" and news with a tiny kernel of truth somewhere in it (in this story it sounds like a semi-related laptop was infected with some malware) that is sensationalized to claim something much broader? I think that there are some pieces of news (e.g. meme-news that people post on social media sites, that would be similar to what one might read in a tabloid) that get automatically rejected by my BS filter a lot easier than something like the piece mentioned in the article, which was posted by a respectable journal.
Everyone understands it implies that everyone understands it, regardless of background or knowledge or whether they know programming or not.
I'm concerned about my civil rights and not your tedious verbal fencing.

Every American should be concerned about the idea of making it legal for police to selectively enforce law based on "moral convictions" about marriage and lifestyle. If you're not concerned about that kind of legislation then I'm not prepared to debate you on such a fundamental tenant on a mobile keyboard. Suffice to say: I'm opposed fundamentally.

As for why know about it: be real. We've got a lot more influence than you imply we do. I've got comparatively enormous financial resources to back certain people, along with the ability to finance a defensive emigration attempt.
While pricing people out of "hot cities" sucks, there is an upside to up and coming cities being built up. Even Austin and Denver mentioned in the story were not on par with 'out of reach' cities a decade ago.

There will continue to be waves of this as we see places like Nashville, NC cities, SLC, Charleston etc building up now.

This relocation is a form of spreading the wealth and based on geography the optimistic view is some of the benefit will go to areas we saw most left behind and divided this election (south, midwest).

In the long term that could be a boon to middle class outside megacities and more opportunity to escape the mega city bubbles/echo chambers
Yeah, I'm playing with the pricing model. As a side project, I'd like it to at least break even. The NLP required for parsing addresses uses quite a bit of memory, so this increases the monthly costs to keep it online. Also, sending a postcard outside of the US costs substantially more than within the US. I wanted to find a good pricing structure that's flat, regardless of where the postcard is going.

There's room to reduce these costs as more people use the service. As long as I'm breaking even on servers I'll be happy :).
Doesn't this apply to any language that has string interpolation, Ruby, Python, Javascript Perl, etc? And doesn't it not really matter, because it's not realistic to use a dynamic string template in a program?
> Hmm. It's a little hard to imagine that per-student funding in high-density city schools outstrips that for truly wealthier and presumably sparser suburbs with any significant consistency.

Definitely does in my city. Teacher pay's also substantially higher in the inner city schools. Most teachers still don't want to work there because they're stuck in a seemingly-inescapable poverty-and-culture-driven "bad homes -> bad students -> burnt-out and bitter faculty" rut, which makes them a discouraging, abusive, and dangerous hell for faculty and students alike.

Source: my wife and probably half my circle of friends are teachers.

[EDIT] in fact, some of the better suburban schools pay worse than the so-so suburban schools, let alone the high-paying inner city ones, because they can. Good teachers will still work there because the environment is nicer and more rewarding (that is, the students are way easier to teach, and the community tends to be supportive)
Many times employees do not work 8 hours focused, sometimes they just do not come because of "sickness" just because they do not feel productive, or they come late-leave late occassionally because of a private need. Many employers understand that and tolerate that, as long as it is not impacting the general performance. So when company needs the employee occasionally out of office hours, the employee should do his/her best. If both parties are not abusing the situation everything is ok. Many times I am busy with a private issue at office hours but sometimes in a not-so-important private time my company needs me and I am happy to provide my support. With job contract I don't sell my 40 hours strictly, but I set up a continuous relationship with my employer to get the job done, which sometimes may require sacrifice of private time.
> Is there any evidence to suggest that the DNC was singled out for attack?

I didn't say the DNC was singled out for attack. I said the leaks targeted them specifically. It's an intentional and notable distinction.
The GDP of the entire content of Africa is $2.39 trillion, just the USA alone has a GDP 7x their entire content. It would be roughly equivalent to bringing in $1.4 billion into the US economy.

Do you have any actual evidence to add to your argument? Or just more ignorant sarcasm?
These events have a reaction time, a response time, and a validation time. It is critical that legitimate news outlets keep their validation time small so that they can accurately report events.

The danger is pretty clear, if response time is shorter than validation time, people or systems will respond, perhaps irreversibly, before validation can be achieved.

That is how you do real damage in a system. Hopefully a very public critical response to the Washington Post here will help extend their response time again past the validation time.
Don't forget Fox, WSJ and the NY Post to add to the propaganda machine. Just from the other side.
Forgive me for being sceptical, considering this entire thread is about WaPo publishing false stories, and you linking to one of their publications...
Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence
Nice, but you could make it alot more accessible with naming it something friendlier, postcardbuddy, or something and have some "cute" logo. Its quite tech geek bare metal now
The Time article is interesting although it is an Opinion piece. It correctly points out that our passenger system is a joke, although an improving joke.

As for the best of the best, I just kinda think Deutsche Bahn has us beat. And Japan. And Switzerland ...
This is absurd. It's clear that people at the DNC preferred Clinton. But the real question is what actions were taken to make Sanders less likely to become nominee? Absolutely none.
Wealth inequality is really an instance of homophily. Money attracts money. The rich get richer.

Wealth inequality harms the economy, because as people get poorer they can no longer participate in economic activity. Businesses need consumers with money to spend.

When enough people become sufficiently poor, uneducated, and angry, then you get Trump.
Glenn Greenwald can't be trusted with his men Assange and Snowden propped up by Putin.
Definitely should have started the other comment with this. :)

Happy new year.
It doesn't make any sense that your comments here were down voted.

You haven't said anything out of line.
But don't you see that you're doing the same from the opposite side? Any criticism of Putin is attributed to bitter Democrats, so there can be no valid criticism of Putin any more.
Because a large portion of the important and high-value stuff is not actually made in China, is is just assembled there. Your iPhone might be "made in China", but most of the parts that make it an iPhone are made in other countries. If you were to consider the things that we think of as being essential then the fraction of things that are made in China becomes even smaller. Yes, we would need to do without cheap bras and Levis for a short while, and the strategic plastic shit stockpile would dwindle, but the nation would somehow get through these dark days.

China, OTOH, would likely never recover from having all of its revenue generating export goods evaporate to other countries in SE Asia and elsewhere.
Xiaomi gets a detailed reality check as its smartphone sales slump
For your reference the fourth paragraph from WashPost story:

>Burlington Electric said in a statement that the company detected a malware code used in the Grizzly Steppe operation in a laptop that was not connected to the organization’s grid systems. The firm said it took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alert federal authorities
The UK is not friendly to non-EU individuals who want to come to work. Immigration laws have tightened significantly in the last 10 years, making it infeasible to move here without a sponsor and without enough money to buy your way in.
That description really doesn't apply to this article at all. I'm not sure how "working on a small, local level is probably more effective for individuals" is a liberal opinion, and any judgments on _you_ from the author would seem to just be your own projections, as there's nothing like that in here.
Good tip! That could be because I'm a bare metal tech geek :p
Which I find funny as hell that people don't just use sms, at least in the US most cell plans are now unlimited text (not including pictures). I never quite got the point of whatsapp or other text message alternates in the US... especially when they (many) don't have a website that can be used from the desktop.
This kind of behaviour by the Russian security services has been well documented for decades. It’s hardly out of keeping with their past.
Ongoing harassment is a regular practice among spy agencies. The underlying message is "we know who you are" and sometimes a threat, sometimes to undermine.

The agents and officers they actually care about, they (and we) rarely touch. It's better if they think their cover is intact.
> What’s the problem here? It did not happen.

> There was no “penetration of the U.S. electricity grid.” The truth was undramatic and banal. Burlington Electric, after receiving a Homeland Security notice sent to all U.S. utility companies about the malware code found in the DNC system, searched all their computers and found the code in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid.

"and found the code in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid."

So, the first step in penetrating a system was accomplished, getting the code onto a device that could potentially (or so they attacker may have hoped) be connected to the target network.

Until I hear that the code was put on the laptop by its owners intentionally and for legitimate reasons, this sounds like an attack. The headlines and responses are arguably alarmist and not fully informed, but it's still an attack. The dismissal of alarmism seems intended to obscure the likelihood that there was, in fact, the start of an attack.

If a spear phishing attack fails, was it not still an attack? That it was an attack in the direction of the power grid is, by definition, alarming. [EDIT: The first sentence in this paragraph confuses my point, and can profitably be ignored.]

The intercept's article could have been less sensationalist itself, and I wonder what the motivation for the overdramatization of the Post's failure would be. Competition? Schadenfreude? Sensationalist link baiting?

Regardless, I had hoped for a more sober and professional style from the intercept from its early days, and I've long ago stopped reading it, modulo the odd HN post.
I stumbled across this post a while back, some legit suggestions.
Use PrivacyBadger, not Ghostery. Ghostery let's some stuff through.
You wrote, "Every single point you list either is outright false or is twisted beyond recognition from the reality of the situation," but that is simply not true. The reasons innocentoldguy listed are EXACTLY the reasons that skeptics give for denying climate change; which is what he claimed, isn't it? Sure, his original post could have been written better. So could yours. innocentoldguy did go on to clarify his position though, yet you're still trashing him because of your perceptions regarding his original post, rather than the validity of what he said, aren't you?

Here's a HuffPo article you can read that outlines many of the same issues innocentoldguy brought up, if you still have doubts as to the validity of his statement:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-denial-ps...
Journalists get stories wrong all the time, even journalists from respected publications.
I am doing just that? Apparently others are as well since school enrollment keeps growing.
Reminds me of notation used un Old Lisp books (queinnec).

Personally I find ml to be much of what concise and unambiguous hand notation should be.
Probably why I like it.
WSJ actually seems to have a lot of journalistic integrity imo. Ive never seen issues with them.

Their opinion pieces can have a bit more "free thinking", definitely, but they are always marked as opinion.
It really isn't. Psuedocode is a notation to move design along, to communicate and iterate. It isn't meant for the 6 year old kid or non programming PHB people manager, laypersons if you might say. Psuedocode notations require learning investments just like any other notations.
You can't easily go first because of the Visa issue, where you need the job first where you need the language first.
I disagree on WSJ. They do a good job of keeping the opinion confined to the editorial section... for the most part.
Whale hunters in Japan (where they have gotten a lot of criticism in recent years) most certainly do use the whole whale, or at least most of it. They eat the meat; so it's no more wasteful than eating a cow, pig, chicken. It may have been the case that they used to just harvest the blubber, but don't think it's cost effective to even do that any more (crude oil is way, way cheaper).

I'm not sure where I ever said no animals should be killed, quite the opposite in fact. I don't have an issue with ANY animal being killed. However I realize that some people DO have an issue with only certain animals being killed and not others; that is the hypocrisy.

It seems the basis of your entire argument is that you just want to do what the majority says is okay to do. That's a cool way to live your life I guess, but at least try to think for yourself every now and again.
> be an even bigger issue in Scala.

not with string interpolation in scala.
it only works on compile time so it's not possible to actually take user input strings (without runtime reflection of course)

> it hardly seems like your reply applies to the topic/thread

yes string interpolation (scala) has less todo with it. it can't be compared to the python one.
> Ultimately however the main problem is wealth inequality. If median income had increased with GDP since 1980, instead of all gains going to the 0.01%, you would be able to afford to live in the suburbs of San Diego.

The problem of income inequality is one and the same as the housing crisis - ie, the wealth gap is nearly entirely explained by real estate.
I think you meant more people within walking distance.
A fix for the Java leap second bug (2012)
Except if you owe the bank a billion it is unlikely you actually have a billion in assets they can get their hands on. A bank that tried this to someone who owed them that much would soon find the auditors coming to visit and setting up shop for quite a while. The former management of this bank that went bust and was shut down by banking regulators is unlikely to have much leverage when it comes to blacklisting you...
I don't think that's the issue here. It's the verboseness of code/pseudocode which this solves. The understandingness of code was not raised as a problem.

This notation is not to say that ideas can be expressed better on paper with this notation, but rather that, in situations where you must use pencil (such as whiteboarding), code is overly verbose and this notation is less so.

Then again, I do see some benefits of writing this on paper over writing code on a keyboard, like the flexibility of being able to write wherever you want, and write notes or pictures in the margins. But these are minor.

Also I may have misunderstood your comment.

Edit: actually, upon rereading: I guess you were referring to this line in the opening paragraph

>But our programming languages are very poorly suited for handwriting: they waste the spatial arrangement, ideographic symbols, text size variation, and long lines (e.g. horizontal and vertical rules, boxes, and arrows) that we can easily draw by hand, instead using textual identifiers and nested grammatical structure that can easily be rendered in ASCII (and, in the case of older languages like FORTRAN and COBOL, EBCDIC and FIELDATA too.)

which is an interesting thing to think about. So I guess your criticism of modern computers for representing ideas is valid. But I suppose the advantage of the more restricted inputs of a computer (keyboard into a 1d string of ascii text) is the structure that it inherently has, that paper and pencil does not. So there are tradeoffs.
Reposting this, seems this year's leap second is causing similar issues. Or the same as 2012 with many unpatched systems.
> The flip side of making things opaque and "just work" per Apple philosophy, is that when they don't work, trying to fix it becomes even more difficult.

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”

— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
There's plenty to criticize Putin for- Democrats just don't want to look at how badly they bungled this election and others. (Ask yourself why since 2010 they've lost over 1000 governorships, state legislature seats, and Congressional seats. It ain't Russia!)

And at the same time some of them are saying crap like "Who cares about Russia, their only contribution to the world was the gulag". I'm paraphrasing here, but this is what I was referring to in my post above. In their zeal to denounce a man they see as a racist bigot, they turn to bigotry themselves. Shameful is the word for it. I mean, look at this: https://twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/809188697002409988

All in all it's just a startling 180- 4 years ago, Democrats were (correctly) lambasting Romney for BS tough-talk about Russia.
Yes, they added that eventually, but long after the story had gone viral.

Here's an earlier cached version: http://web.archive.org/web/20161231011622/https://www.washin...
Ok... so who's writing this?
51 universal truths that will make you more successful
I find this article as misleading as the original WP article. Truth is out the window, get used to it. If one side can come up with utter nonsense, then why can't the other?