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Respectfully, do you feel this is constructive discourse?

Because to me the purpose of your comment is to drag down other comments, even yet unmade ones, into the mud. Invalidating everyone's opinion on this subject except 0.1% of the population (namely very specific experts). Even politicians or professional political commentators wouldn't meet your high bar.

And to the people who do feel like the bar should be set at "only experts are allowed an opinion" then why stop on this issue? Why not branch it out to every major political issue? Plus seemingly being well read on a topic is no longer enough to have an informed opinion, qualifications are the only metric by which we can measure an argument rather than the qualities of the argument itself.

My point is that this is a dangerous argument that only seeks to result in the silence of commentators. It only detracts rather than adds to the discussion's value.
Because many are spies, just as many of the 35 Russian diplomats are.
> Imagine if the IRS "accidentally" released Trump's tax returns or been hacked to allow this data to come out.

The NYT did publish Trump's stolen tax return, and were quite self-congratulatory about having done so...

> Or if the alleged tapes went public of Donald Trump making openly racist remarks on his TV shows outtakes.

...and, the stories about the hacked material were outnumbered probably 100-1 by the simultaneous coverage of the stolen backstage Access Hollywood tape (which was doubly illegal because California is a "two-party consent" state).

Which is not to say either of those things weren't newsworthy, or shouldn't have been reported on, but: it's completely, blatantly hypocritical to say that illegally-obtained information should not be allowed to affect the election when it hurts one candidate, but is fair game to use to hurt the other.
You think the rest of the poll has high credibility?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/12/28/am...

52% of Trump voters believe Obama was born in Kenya?

9% of Trump voters believe Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Trump elected?

31% of Trump voters think vaccines cause autism?

That's a radical shift from the 6% of Americans who thought so according to a Gallup survey:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/gallup-poll-vaccine...
Jeez people, read the report, it isn't any kind of justification of anything, its just a fairly generic don't do this, like I see 100 times a week at work. The real details were likely shown to congress and the senate (or at least a portion of it). Those are the only people who can say if the actual attack was real or imagined. 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.

While we technical folks would love to see all the details that's not how intelligence works. Some things have to be secret even though these days everything becomes a conspiracy and a political controversy and a tweet storm.

That said I doubt anyone in either party committee had any idea how security works; even worse is that much of the US government is (and will be) lead by political benefactors with an axe to grind and not people with a real clue about modern security either so expect nothing much different in the future until someone hacks the nuclear "football".
>Numenta is a scam?

In the sense that they take large amounts of money from VCs, don't ship a product, don't make a profit, and then clean up their books and start another company eventually, yeah. OTOH, if you're one of their investors, you might have a better look at their business model than me, so I could well be completely wrong. They've never gone public, so what would I know?
He's starting something he won't be able to finish. Not very wise. At this point, the focus should be on an orderly transition of power instead of making waves and creating problems for the next guy to handle. Whether he likes it or not, Trump is the next guy, and Trump's going to have to handle it one way or the other. Trying to cast the die like this is just counterproductive.
1) I think you know what I mean. If everything was all right, and there was nothing to hide - how could anybody influence anything?

2) That's probably because I am an ethnic Russian on a mostly American site.
Two on the FBI list

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/alexsey-belan

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/evgeniy-mikhailovich-bogach...
>If you live in a high cost of living area sending a kid to an Ivy is relatively cheaper for you than someone in a lower cost of living area.

I don't disagree with your point but this is a very strange example. Most people don't send their kids to Ivies (most don't even think about applying), and even fewer pay full price.
Why does no one cite the original private email server that was poorly secured and ran by the Clintons as part of this?
American political consultants != American intelligence agencies.

When Trump retained a campaign manager with ties to Russian officials[0], it was a minor scandal, not something requiring over government response.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-...
Plenty of people in the City (uk) make 170k) but google doesn't pay that in the same location does it.
Misread the title as saying "Portal"! Pleasantly surprised however - I never played Postal.
It's because there's no proof that Russia did any of this and what was done wasn't "hacking the election". It was a leak of factual information. I think a lot of people (myself included) were happy to have the information made public. I'd also be happy if such details about the RNC were made public, but they weren't. I see this more as whistleblowing than anything else and I definitely wouldn't qualify it as "hacking" especially not of "the election".
The Washington Post's investigative reporting is fantastic, while its opinion writing is shrill and barely informative.

I think the reason for the sudden prominence of negative Trump coverage was to address serious backlash the Washington Post was receiving. The Washington Post and other newspapers were giving enormous amounts of free media coverage to the Trump campaign up until the Republican National Convention. The Washington Post overcompensated by deluging readers with opinion pieces to overcome this criticism.

I hope that the interest in opinion pieces will wane, but we will see.
This article sure is strange:

>>The contrast between whites and Asians is particularly stark. Nearly 1 in 5 white Americans reside in rural counties, where a dollar goes a lot further. But 97 percent of Asian Americans live in or near a major city, where the cost of living is higher.

By definition of living in a lower income area and subsequently making less money, you are unable to live in a nicer, high cost of living area. Personal preference aside, this means you're living in a more desirable area (for many, by definition) and these areas tend to have more job opportunities.

>> Asian Americans, largely for historical reasons, cluster near expensive coastal cities. More than 25 percent of Asian Americans live in one of the four metro areas with the highest costs of living — Honolulu, San Jose, New York and San Francisco. Overall, about 73 percent live in metro areas with above-average costs, 24 percent live in metro areas with below-average costs, and 3 percent live in rural areas.

This is basically irrelevant. One could also say, Black Americans, largely for historical reasons, cluster near more Southern large cities and towns (Dallas, Georgia, New Orleans, etc.)

>> When we factor in these geographic patterns, the racial income gaps start to look a little different

Yeah, Asian Americans still are making much more than Black and Hispanics. If this is supposed to negate the assertion many make that "For that reason, Asian Americans have often been invoked as a way to excuse the income gaps between whites and blacks or whites and Hispanics..." this isn't doing a great job.

>> If you compare whites and Asian Americans with the same amount of schooling, Asian Americans actually make less money.

They should also compare Asian Americans with Black and Hispanic Americans too, for good measure.

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This conclusion may be faulty, but I'm basically getting the following: for "elite Asians" (keep in mind, most Asians are not "elite"), they enjoy inklings of White privilege, if there's such a thing. However, they do not receive as much of said privilege as actual White people.
Oh please. So far Russian military have proved to be marginally better than Georgia and on par with Ukraine.

Speaking as someone with a lot of friends and acquaintances working in Russian military industry, it's much more talented in building potemkin villages and giving an impression of power than doing anything real. Everything, from tech to mentality of the military is rotten and just painted over.
I have been anxious about using Rust as webserver. But so far there is no mature framework that I think can use. I had a look at few like mio and iron framework etc. It has no mature Websocket implementation or an http package mature enough to be used in production. I am looking forward to make an ultra efficient PubSub server that supports HTTP poll and Websockets. Hope my dream comes true :)
I understand why that might superficially decrease you trust in the claims, but consider the perspective of the totalitarian trying to spin up a chemical weapons program. Wouldn't leveraging existing expertise and contractors be a good way to get the weapons you wanted? Why wouldn't a dictator hire outsiders to build weapons?

Having his experts check them for traps after the construction sounds much cheaper than building his own design teams.
>Nobody is out there beating that drum yet, and it's a shame.

Nobody is beating that drum because it comes off as religious crazy-talk. I see zero reason why it should be our purpose to create any kind of metaphorical species-offspring, especially when you yourself say that any concept of making it safe for us to share a planet with is oxymoronic. That sounds like saying, "our purpose is to build an apocalypse and die for its greater glory". Again, that comes off as religious crazy-talk of the suicidal kind.

It seems to me there are entirely sane reasons to work on advanced machine learning and increasingly general AI. That's just not at all one of them.
Check out the Mooltipass it's the hardware security device I want but can't afford because of college.
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Hah, I actually did a small project on some of this data for one of those companies. Pretty amazing what you can get out of 50 char descriptions at scale.

Do you happen to know the law that caused them to stop trading PII? Is it only the networks, as opposed to the issuers who trade information?
I dunno. When I have a hard day at work, I'd much rather be somewhere in the Arma 3 universe, where I am a god among men.

I say that a bit jokingly, but I imagine its a bit of the same feeling.
Well Part A is going broke while Part D is under budget, so...
1) The Obama administration has said that retaliation will be in some part covert, so there's strong reasons to believe the publicized reaction is only the tip of the iceberg

2) If Russia hacked US elections in a material way (i.e. stuffing electronic ballots), we probably wouldn't know anyway. President Trump is much better for the United States than acknowledging that Russia can elect whoever they want.
Expect lots of movement in this space, with tokio coming out with an initial release soon!
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I really think you are underestimating the impact that GAI will have on the planet. Anybody with it will become the most powerful person on Earth ever.

Honestly, I think we are naive in thinking that GAI will just become another service. From our perspective it will be like inventing magic. Ask it what you want and it will give it to you.

The future will truly be stranger than fiction once GAI arrives. It will be like nothing we ever imagined.
While I do agree that in the example article mentioned all those were definitely Basic Marketing 101, I actually believe that "growth hacking" is real and is more of trying new things that no one has done before. These strategies/tactics are unique and different to every business depending on several factors such as type of business, target market, location, etc. These are also time sensitive and have a life cycle, meaning what worked 5 years ago will likely not work today.

It's a constantly shifting landscape with new unique opportunities appearing everywhere, you just need to find them and when you find something showing any promise, you gotta EXECUTE. And expect to fail (waste your time) often. When it happens, you shrug it off, learn from it, and look for another "hack".

Also, keep in mind that when someone finds and establishes a real "growth hack" that works wonders for their business, it will be a gold mine and they will 100% NOT be sharing it with anyone. They will try and milk it as long as they can. Once it's milked dry, that's when the "gurus" come out and share them (for money AKA paid courses, or blog views), literally at the end of the life cycle when it's not worth keeping a secret anymore.
Then why was it released the exact same day that Obama expelled Russian diplomats as punishment?

You can argue that the report technically wasn't meant as evidence of Russian intervention, but the administration certainly doesn't mind people thinking that it is.
Thanks for sharing, feeder looks very impressive. I think you should raise your prices.

Working with a team definitely makes a huge difference. It's a lot easier to stay motivated when someone else is handling their specialty and you're accountable to them as well as yourself.
>"It's basically Tim Leary/Robert Anton Wilson's model dressed in psychobabble. I'd give her more credit if she at least credited/referenced them"

Are you suggesting the two individuals you mentioned are the originators of that line of thought? Why is it important to you that these two individuals are name dropped?
Questions such as those are quite meaningless to ask. People take them as a proxy for "which side are you on" and respond accordingly.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/457605107772545/under-the-ho...
It's the side who stands to lose from the conflict which usually tries to solve it. US is losing almost nothing from it strained relationship with Russia — why should it bother with it?
My fear -- which comes out of entirely too much experience -- is that the speaker will say, "There are three really important points to remember..." and later I look at my notes where I wrote, "#1 blah blah #2 blah blah."

...#3? I see no #3 here.
I suppose the simplest thing to do would be for Adobe to produce a WebAssembly build of Flash player. Any old Flash content could be run via that without the need to install Flash on the system.
Because it's been covered extensively and is unrelated to the leaked DNC, DCCC, and Podesta emails that arose at the end of the election season?
He really didn't say that at all, do you not believe in transparency of the government?
There are a handful of scattered examples.

Fortunately because of how signing works it makes malware that is signed incredibly easy to detect, since by the very nature of the signature the malware's contents cannot be altered.

Plus signing is costly, and that within itself can make malware attacks uneconomical. It also makes getting a signature rather complex since you need fake identification and payment to avoid being carted off by the authorities.

Overall signing requirements are a huge net win for the "good guys." And while it isn't a hard security boundary, it is a damn effective one in the real world.
Expensive consumer products CAN confer utility just by being expensive. See e.g. studies on wine ratings vis a vis knowledge of price.

It is disturbing to me, but it is the reality of things :/
I'm very pleasantly surprised to see people who can appreciate the humour on HN.
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With option 1, it will be hard for the new administration to unravel it without confirming the bias that they are in the pay of Russia. However this level of subtlety may be beyond Trump.

Perhaps Obama is trying to make Trump's new administration look illegitimate?
Basically a "bad" programmer that can't write maintainable code that prepares for technical interviews by brushing up on algorithms and whiteboard style questions will do better than a very good programmer with lots of years experience.
I mean, you're talking about the campaign of a person who was running while being investigated for circumventing security procedures. Regardless of what you think about those topics or their validity, is it that surprising that the campaign wasn't up to par on the security front?
That's the real absurdity of this debacle to me.

Many of the whitepapers that I read about the DNC hack listed the attack's "sophistication" as proof that it came from a state actor, yet it was the most routine, simple attack conceivable. No rootkits, no 0 days, just simple phishing and social engineering.
OWS doesn't support this method of distribution nor should they.

If you want to do it your way get the source from github and build your own damn client.

If you just want to check that the google play apk is signed you can do that with the antoid sdk/jdk jarsigner works on apk files.
Psychographics, Data Science and Ad Tech = Targeted Political Manipulation?
While it may be more lucrative to be a consultant, it may be harder for people to get into that career. I am not a consultant, so my experience is limited, but it seems that its all about having contacts and being good. If it's your first programming job, you may have neither the skills nor the contacts to be a successful consultant.
There's a lot of interesting stuff, including http://www.tockos.org/.

Some osdev stuff still needs nightly, but there's been really great movement on tooling, with stuff like xargo, and https://github.com/rust-embedded/ is a group of people trying to work towards improving things generally by identifying common needs, etc.
He writes:

"Nothing about neuroscience, computation, or philosophy prevents it. Thinking is an emergent property of activity in networks of matter. Minds are what brains – just matter – do. Mind can be done in other substrates."

Yet the rest of his post is obsessed with "building" minds or AGI and tries to extrapolate based on that premise. There is a school of thought that views AGI as an emergent cybernetic process, "a metasystem-transition" [1]. This has roots all the way back to the concept of "Noosphere" that comes from Teilhard/Vernadsky [2]. Even if one does not feel aligned with such ideas, it is intellectually dishonest to posit AGI solely as the product of directed human engineering.

It is far more likely in my view, that AGI will be a Black Swan event and
therefore all attempts to place it on a time scale, fraught with peril.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
Saying it's trivial that the developing world is improving could be interpreted as the developing world lacking importance in comparison to the developed world.

Did you mean it was easy to achieve (not that I would agree with that either).
It may have been the origin of all of this. They setup a private email server that was insecure and poorly managed so that they would not be subject to FOIA, etc. It contained top-secret emails. No one disputes that.

Why could that not have been the catalyst to hacking the DNC? You've got all these important DNC folks sending her emails that reside on that server... right?
Average gross salary in Romania is $740/month, so $17k/month should be able to pay 6 salaries.
We have a lot of Mac users in the student body. More than 60%. Also iOS users.
Tangental but relevant: Vitamin K2 appears to be worth supplementing in this regard:

http://vitamink2.org/effect-vitamin-k2-progression-atheroscl...
> Obama's reaction was - nothing

Nothing publicly. There was a public reaction to this issue because when "some elites of his own party got egg on their face" it was front page news for months that potentially effected the integrity of our election process. The OPM hacks were a disaster in terms of information security, but disappeared in a few news cycles because it didn't effect everyday citizens and had nothing to do with the fundamentals of our democracy.
My general point is that college is a large cost that isn't affected by CoL. Same for vehicles.
The problem here is that the system is not secure by default, one needs to hire a qualified specialist to set everything up. By default the user can run executable attachments or files downloaded from browser and it is a wrong design decision made many years ago. Users do not understand what is an "executable file", they got used to click an icon to see the file contents. This is just poorly designed UI that helps to deceive a user.

> If Microsoft forced either SmartScreen OR AppLocker, then we'd have people on here screaming about freedom, Microsoft is evil,

There could be a separate UI for installing software or even a package manager. Microsoft doens't want to change anything because it is still the leader and earns huge profits.
Ladar spoke about the case at length recently, once the 3 year gag order expired - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lN-RAfzRQ
It made occasional appearances in the news earlier this year, but it was only after Trump won that they really put their foot on the gas with this McCarthyist hysteria.
> Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but it does bother anyone that the NYT title calls it "election hacking"?

No, it's hacking with the purpose and manifest effect of causing the end result of the election to be more in the direction that the actor favors than it would otherwise be, so "election hacking" is concise and entirely accurate.

> I worry that people who just read titles are getting the wrong impression

People who just read titles will always get incomplete information that they will fill in with assumptions that will often be incorrect. Were that not the case, there'd be no point to having an actual article behind the title.
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The San Junipero episode of Black Mirror nailed it--limiting people's time in VR to avoid "side effects". That show is just hauntingly prescient with its straddle between what's possible now and what's just-slightly-out-of-reach.

Growing numbers of people preferring an alternative reality is scary to me. And the idea that it may cause a psychological break with reality for a significant number of people is even scarier--as if we need more people disassociated and thus capable of committing heinous or anti-social acts.

Strange that we're just cruising into this with little alarm. Stranger still that we don't find any issue with a relatively small number of people literally jockeying to redefine reality for the masses for commercial gain.

The times they are a changin'.
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And all the CPUs in the world have a 20 billion brains worth. Despite the large number of transistors, they're still not organized in a way which makes them intelligent, no matter how many times you multiply them.
> don't get too hung-up on the money

Correct. Not on money, but also not on name ("I have to work for one of the big 4")
Look at the first graphic. It's 46% of Trump voters vs. 17% of Clinton voters (which is still insanely high, for a theory so easily discredited).
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