skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concretely proven thanks to Edward Snowden leaking BULLRUN and Core Secrets:

http://www.dcssproject.net/bullrun/

https://theintercept.com/2014/10/10/core-secrets/
> If the US were to respond to a false alarm by say, nuking Russia, they could expect a 100% chance that Russia would retaliate.

Unless the attack successfully disables their response. I don't think it makes sense to rely on that, but it's definitely a point that has factored into various calculations around this issue over the years.
I can understand being able to pick up on autism, and some personality disorders. Mood disorders -- unless there is obvious suicide or psychosis -- can be tricky though. Some people are just really energetic, and fit, and excitable. Some people act out their emotions more than others so it can seem more than it really is.

Giving unsolicited diagnoses puts you at risk of being accused of being a 'gaslighter', etc. In many cases it's like if you see a really skinny person and are convinced they are anorexic... Some people are just skinny, just like many people put on weight alarmingly easy.

And then there's malingering psychosis -- there's a horror film. I'm pretty sure I knew someone like this, but I could never say anything (I suspected they had BPD and were feigning psychosis.)
While I do feel bringing up physical violence is a bit out of bounds in this conversation I can humour it. My point wasn't that I condone or condemn the behaviour, simply that different things motivate different people and if you wish to reduce a behaviour, a full understanding should come first. The article explore a bit of that but not enough.
Regardless of whether it was justified, it does weaken our position to complain when others do it to us
Some ideas -

- Outsourcing offshore to lower costs through a 3PP

- Junior developers with inadequate training

- Sheer incompetence

Incompetence can be extended to management - i.e. a lack of policies and auditing to undertake due diligence.

Sometimes SQLi isn't always obvious even if they are aware of the attack vector if the developer is not thinking defensively. For example inputs from a cookie or HTTP headers such as HTTP referer etc.
Who then outsourced the work to Russia and China.
You should have known you would get downvoted for pointing out racism on hacker news. Rookie mistake.
How the fuck is this comment not downvoted to oblivion. Is hacker news is a racist cesspool?
The hacker in question was trying to sell the data, doesn't appear to be a state actor.

Hackers try to breach everyone and everything. Every state does it, criminals do it, researchers do it.

Suggesting Obama start shit without solid evidence that it was the Russian state is reckless.
The "typical" practice is to use an "up"/"down" scripts to modify the DNS servers when the VPN link goes up/down.

If you just want to use your GCP dnsmasq instance for the .internal top-level domain (not all DNS queries), then you'd want to run a resolver locally that you can configure to selectively forward queries.

This is pretty easy on Linux but I've never attempted it on MacOS. I realize it's probably not ideal but perhaps you can install dnsmasq or unbound on MacOS via homebrew or Macports?
Is this different from yubikey etc?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252242
I'm wondering how one simulates pregnancy, especially as you describe.
Wasn't us. :|
Well the state of Georgia has been asking why they had attempts from DHS addresses. The states own systems detected the attempt and even where it came from. These were early in the year. it took awhile but DHS claimed a hack occurred via the Borders and Custom's systems.

Trying to get to the bottom of that one where we know who was affected and the IP addresses trace back to another government agency is even more maddening, why won't the Feds cooperate?
I despise that quote. Regardless of what the intended message was, what it implies is a horrible recipe for life-long support of shitty client behavior.
Is there anyway to delete/DMCA those white page websites (whitepages.com, spokeo, instantcheckmate, etc.) that list all your relatives and your past physical addresses?
Not only that, but if we start dumping dirt, who knows what secrets our adversaries might choose to drag out of the closet and parade down main street. It's a loosing proposition.
The problem with that strategy is that some will continue referring good/great people they've worked with.. and some will stop or hesitate. Since - as noted in the article - referrals tend to move faster, be more likely hires, and stick around longer, this seems like a bad strategy.
I've got two "jump boxes" running SSH accessible to 0/0. You can only SSH into any other hosts from one of those two and I do that dozens of times a day without even thinking about it.

It was a quick one-time set-it-up-and-forget-it (to configure "ProxyCommand" in ~/.ssh/config) kind of thing that just works.
4) Intentional negligence.
To be fair, that applies to many people across many things. "It won't happen to me" type of thinking is quite common across many ages for many scenarios.
Just because a type can be named doesn't mean that returning the named type properly expresses your intent.

The name of said type can get real hairy real fast, as well.
Probably the same reason people entrusted their private conversations to POTS for a much longer time than facebook existed.
POTS?
I am not my achievements. I am not my goals. I shall smell the roses and enjoy the process and struggle without lust for result. Namaste, mofos!!!
Just to be clear, you are comparing different statistics. Based on your sources, assuming perfect use 2 out of 100 women using condoms will get pregnent, compared to 4 out of 100 using withdrawal.

If you do not filter for perfect compliance, the stat is 27/100 for withdrawal, and 18/100 for condoms.
Plain old telephone services
Plain Old Telephone Service
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. Don't miss it one bit.
Even most people I know who have written compilers haven't written assemblers; neither have most people I know who have written (real, not toy) programs in assembly. The argument isn't that it would be useless, but rather that it's an extremely inefficient use of one's time and money if the goal is higher level development - or even, I'd argue, if one was aiming for a proficiency writing programs in assembly.

Again, I'd argue that focusing on being proficient at the level someone is interested in is much, much more useful than focusing on making a lot of different toys at a bunch of different levels and in a bunch of different languages. You are going to learn something either way, but jumping around with a bunch of small projects all over the place probably means that you aren't going to retain much and you're not going to have any particular strength at the end.

Conversely, if you focus you're going to retain a lot more, since you can incorporate a lot more of your previous knowledge as you get more knowledge - in fact, if you work on a real project instead of a toy, you're probably going to be seeking out a lot more knowledge on your own as issues come up. In the end you're going to be able to say your proficient in your chosen area, and you'll probably be in a good place to expand to other areas (and you'll have a good sense of where you should expand to).
It isn't fair to compare typical use of one method tp ideal use of another. Per Wikipedia, the two methods have similar effectiveness rates under typical use, with condoms being twice as effective under ideal use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_...
I assume you're talking about Fogbeam. I don't like the tagline, btw: "Easy to use, community-driven, open-source Enterprise software for businesses."

Nobody goes online searching for "enterprise software for businesses". They do however search for solutions to problems like 'advertise to my target customers' or 'chat with my customer on my website'.
C++, Tutorial – An introduction to std::vector – codingeek
There's been virtually no evidence posted about the hack outside of "Russia did it" and as far as i can tell there was no attacks on actual voting machines. Most of these hacks revealed dirty laundry on the democratic party and its nominee. No votes were altered if i understand the situation correctly. I don't think Russia or anybody else would be brave enough to perform such a hack.
I swear this exact text shows up in every conversation about Facebook wether it's related to the story at hand or not. It's almost like a meme at this point. Look we get it OP, but stating that by itself doesn't drive the conversation forward in a meaningful way.
I think many people don't adequately realize how much data they're disclosing, or how it will be used. It can be a surprise that you're "including Zuckerberg" in private, verbal, face to face conversations just because your phone on the table has the Facebook app on it.
Since several people have posted links to quickcheck implementations in other languages, here is a comparison of implementations in many different languages: http://hypothesis.works/articles/quickcheck-in-every-languag....
Are there any organizations that try to peddle these concepts to the masses?

Just basic things like "there's no such thing as privacy when you're on the internet", and "Facebook owns all your private chats and exploits them to coerce you to click ads and use more Facebook".
Before computers became ubiquitous and cheap if one wanted to know the the first 5 decimals of 5/sqrt(2) you had to look up the result in a table of values. But to save space and printing cost that table of values did not contain 1/sqrt(2). It did contain sqrt(2).

My comment about quadratic and linear equations was to point out that pretty much most of basic algebra is realizing that these are the only two types of equations that can be solved by hand (ignore 3rd and 4th degree formula) and what we do in algebra is to study equations that can be reduced to quadratic or linear equations.
Not sure why they decided to release on Christmas eve / day, but looks good.
PHP. It's just too easy to do it wrong in PHP.
it's already being done at many big companies. I believe that FB is one of the biggest offenders
I think there is an implicit assumption that your last sentence is justification for condoning this type of hacking behavior, when it happens to us. I challenge this. Just because the US has meddled in elections in the past, it doesn't make it right, and it shouldn't render us mute when we are victims of it.
I've been looking for something like this for awhile now. I'm a very 'bottom-up' learner. Thank you.
Share HN:  Merry Christmas
I learn and and am inspired by so much that is shared by others on HN, and seek to contribute back to, that I simply with the Hacker News community a very Merry Christmas.
I don't believe it. I feel the public service is just continuing it's attack against a Trump presidency by reinforcing mini narratives that he shouldn't be in power vs Hillary.

Yes the article doesn't say this (of course the hacker is Russian, which isn't out of the ordinary). But your average person won't read that far or even past the headline and when it gets republished those parts will disappear.

That's my read.
I say it is time for the governments of the world to publicly display those secrets. Maybe then we can move forward into a world where humanity isn't constantly stabbing everyone else in the back.
calling this a mental disorder is an egregious belittling of actual mental disorders and a gross miscalculation of what it is needed to solve the problem. most people using facebook are simply uneducated non-technical consumers. they barely comprehend that this "personal" data exists, let alone that its mined and actively exploited.

most people don't understand what they are handing over or how its goong to be used. you would have to use terminology equating it to psychological warfare to get an appropriate response.
Because tradition. Most of the major ruby version are released on christmas day.
Tapping POTS phones was hilariously easy.

There was also an even easier time when anyone with a 47MHz tuner could hear people read out credit card numbers over the air with their cordless phones. It would happen at least once an hour in any busy neighborhood.
> Obama telling Putin to "cut it out" isn't enough. No matter what is happening behind the scenes. Our next president might not even go that far.

The article states, "Eventually they discovered that the Russian-speaking hacker..." I'd like to see more than a Russian-speaking hacker before attributing this to the Russian government.
There were pictures in the article of body suits that simulate the 3rd trimester.
That is exactly the case. Look at the companies that scream the loudest about diversity and have diversity internship programs(FB, MSFT, Google). Smaller companies do not have the budget to hire "diversity officers". They spend their budget hiring the best people they can find.
Obviously.

Leaving it in is much, much worse.

Don't gloss over the fact that I did mention condoms. It's just that everybody hates condoms.

Anyway, most girls just go on the pill as soon as they start dating, for real.

But then there's that pesky thing about diseases.
I'm having a hard time believing anything substantial from the linked thread. It seems like an obvious example of confirmation bias and frequency illusion. If anyone has some data or a "smoking gun" so to speak, I'm all ears. As it stand now though, I don't really care for another iteration of all the people who don't use facebook gloating about it and intentionally failing to understand the value it provides for its users.
Hope they learned their lesson and don't sell the name of the open source project out from under it again.
Condoms are on par with withdrawal? Do you have a source for that?
That wasn't my point. My point is, even if you know the theory behind compilers, and maybe have written a few yourself, you probably will have difficulty understanding GCC, Clang, or another production compiler unless you've done work with such a compiler before.

That is, your friends' awe of the compiler is not only justified given their skill level, it's also likely justified at your skill level as well (although as I don't know you personally, I can't say for sure).
Link? Quote? Article describing services which cost millions to deindex a person?
that wasnt being mined or used to target ads the same way facebook is.
No, it doesn't justify it. The most powerful nations are being very cavalier and the consequences could be dire. But to imply that we should immediately go to war seems disproportionate.
I can't believe people legitimately think Facebook is spying on them through microphones. There's so much that's more likely to be happening I can't fathom why they just default to assuming that and it only serves to make the conversation seem crazy to anyone with a hint of rationality.

Here's a more likely scenario that is scary in its own right:
I have a private conversation with John Doe. John Google's it and ends up on a page with the Facebook tracking pixel. Google knows John and I know each other, knows John and I were in the same place and knows John googled something not long after or while we were in the same place. Facebook doesn't know we talked about it but it can make a guess. Worst case is they show me an ad without much context like dozens of other ads I ignore every single day.

That kind of profiling is what we should be talking about because it doesn't take much to figure out who's talking to who about what when you have information about their every move and page load.
I am not sure I would use this tool on an ongoing / regular basis but for Ask HN: Who's Hiring this would be nice for instant interviews, just a thought ...
Can anyone recommend a few books on chip manufacturing? I am completely blown away at the scale they are working with here. I'm particularly interested in a "how it's made" type book. This is obviously something that requires significant upfront investment. The scale makes this seem so difficult. I'm a total newb is this area so I might not even be asking the right questions yet.
Apocalypse whatever: 4chan's religion of nihilism
>Facebook is advertising products to me based on conversations I've had in bars ...

Is there any evidence that Facebook surreptitiously listens to conversations? I could see mining the ambient content of any Facebook video/VOIP sessions, but beyond that I can't see it being true.

Facebook location services can be genuinely creepy though. Earlier this year I enabled location services on the app (while keeping location history disabled), and it would suggest anyone in my phone's proximity using Facebook. It even suggested the attendants at my local gas station, and nurses at my doctor's office. Neighbors too, but only the ones in the same building (~75ft). I suspect this was due to my friends list numbering in the single digits at the time, since I'd otherwise neglected Facebook since its inception.

Then, I took a brief vacation and added a bunch of new people. The creepy location telepathy suddenly vanished. Ever since, all it's been suggesting is acquaintances of said people, despite the fact I live thousands of miles away with location services enabled 24/7. So, I guess Facebook can be as dumb as it is smart sometimes.

The notion of a private investigator (or psychotic stalker) buying a cheap smartphone, installing FB on it with a clean account, enabling location services, muting it, attaching an external battery and dumping it in a bush somewhere unfortunately seems feasible. It strikes me as a good experiment for a security researcher to conduct.
It's kind of disrespectful for Facebook to literally shove in my face a "Sign Up" billboard on something like this.
My observation on the results that after the program twice as many get pregnant and 1.5x as many get abortions, is that the baby reinforced their preexisting ideas about whether they'd want a baby or not, and had more sex while confident in their decision.
That's an ingenious way of doing JIT. TCC sounds like an amazing project, a complete performant compiler framework and runtime in a small package.
For me, if you wanted to simulate the worst part of having a baby, it would be a random alarm clock (5+ times a night) with a ridiculously complicated off switch. Maybe with sprays of bodily fluids. A cross between sleep deprivation torture and that number-entering bit from Lost that stops the world from exploding.

Every baby is different and every parent is different, but:

- You may not get restful sleep for a couple of years after the birth (my daughter didn't go to bed easily and sleep through until 3 1/2).

- If you breastfeed, you may not get your body back for a while yet. Even if you don't, it is exhausting catering to the whims of small kids. I'm a guy and my body is tired every day after carrying two kids around.

- There are new and exciting forms of pain waiting to be discovered.

Luckily the memories fade pretty quickly - I got a rude shock when the second came along and reminded me of what it's all about.
This all used to be common sense and was drilled into people when the web was new, along with "when online, never share your real name or location with anybody, always use a pseudonym."

Roll on 2016 and people are pouring every personal detail into the web, what the fuck happened?
You shouldn't trust anything you read without multiple independent sources to verify it. But that's what credible news organizations (usually) do. And government organizations don't (usually) lie just to provide a fuzzy narrative of doubt over something which literally no longer matters. That's my read.
What a blast from the past. It did stuck with me as well. Time was a flower, a bank agents were drying it and were making cigars out of them, cigars they needed to stay alive. Once you read it, you can't forget it. It still gives me chills.
I doubt that frozen corn-syrup-in-a-tub would suffer from a lack of NO2.
ok, i'll give a explicit answer

because i prefer to read this way

i wish you wrote this way

i think ideas are easier to absorb when separated and simplified in this manner

why do i think it is easier to absorb this way?

perhaps it is because i am a mathematician, perhaps it is because i am a poet, or perhaps it is because i am a programmer, or perhaps it is because i'm an engineer, or perhaps it is because i am a visual artist, or perhaps it is because i am a chemist, or perhaps it is because i am a physicist,

or perhaps its because i like to express myself through everything i do
i do wish i could clump single lines into groups, but hn formatting obstructs my writing style

because i prefer to read this way

i wish you wrote this way,
i think ideas are easier to absorb when separated and simplified in this manner

why do i think it is easier to absorb this way?
perhaps it is because i am a mathematician, perhaps it is because i am a poet, or perhaps it is because i am a programmer, or perhaps it is because i'm an engineer, or perhaps it is because i am a visual artist, or perhaps it is because i am a chemist, or perhaps it is because i am a physicist,
or perhaps its because i like to express myself through everything i do

code blocks allow me to group ideas but adds that annoying scroll for long lines
> Yes. Facebook uses a trick to keep running in the background on your phone. At least on iOS, most apps aren't able to run background processes constantly. One of the exceptions is apps that play music, so Facebook plays a silent audio clip in the background so it can stay running.

Interesting, according to this [1] article, Facebook claimed that running silent audio on a phone was a bug. That's one heck of an interesting bug.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/facebook-says-it-fixed-a-b...
Facebook is one of those Internet phenomenons that make me feel like I'm getting old. I truly don't understand the product, and why people feel the need to not only use it, but also donate so much sensitive personal information to it. I'm pretty sure that with the amount of sensitive data that the average Facebook user contributes VOLUNTARILY to their accounts, I could easily take out a loan in their name and answer most of their password reset questions correctly. All so they can self-promote all day (or whatever it is they get out of FB). Mind boggling.
>GitHub Pages doesn't handle SSL for custom domains.

That's a problem of GitHub, not of TLS
>Know your data access, and the data structure design has meaningful discourse. Don't know your access patterns? You are unable to pick the best one. Period.

Pretty much: if you don't know the access patterns, draw up a naive implementation so you can figure them out.

This is actually connected to one of the disadvantages of Lisp: because Lisp makes it so easy to draw up a naive datastructure based on LLs, it can take some effort to rip all that out and make something actually fast in its place.

>I wouldn't say it is the dynamism as much as the lack of control.

Don't undereatimate the cost of runtime dynamism. Lisp compilers have gotten pretty good at avoiding implementing it when possible, but there are pretty tight limits on how far you can go with that sort of optimization.

Essentially, every time you call a CLOS method, or you use eval, or you in any way introspect on your runtime state, or create the possibility for your code to do so at runtime, the code you are writing becomes more costly to run.
OK, I'll give a explicit answer: because I prefer to read this way. I wish you wrote this way. I think ideas are easier to absorb when separated and simplified in this manner. Why do I think it is easier to absorb this way? Perhaps it is because I am a mathematician. Or perhaps it is because I am a poet. Or perhaps it is because I am a programmer. Or perhaps it is because I am an engineer. Or perhaps it is because I am a visual artist. Or perhaps it is because I am a chemist. Or perhaps it is because I am a physicist. Or perhaps its because I like to express myself through everything I do.
I'm sure there's a reason why the US intelligence agencies are saying the latter instead of the former for other breaches.