skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring the political context in which it was released.

1. Released the same day as the announcement of formal Russian Sanctions

2. Released the same day US made 35 "diplomats" (aka. known Human Intelligence Officers) Persona Non Grata. Which is a big deal.

This type of document is not intended to "make the case" because we don't do that.

Making a case for something by definition, would reveal sources and methods which we highly guard. It also opens the administration up for scrutiny because there are many pieces which cannot be revealed because of classification - so it's impossibly to fully "make a case."

This type of report does however hint suggestively and point in the direction of support. They just let you put the pieces together.

In fact they don't have to put anything out and most people wouldn't even know to ask (outside of possibly FOIA, which won't go far in these cases).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_non_grata
> Someone explain to me why this is such an issue?

You're maybe on the wrong website if you need someone to explain this to you.
The "computer controlled characters" is a new twist on this to me - keeping up with the Jones's is now keeping up with simulated Jones's!
If you rephrase your hysterical wording as "major bipartisan concern across every intelligence agency and nearly all ranking members of both houses of Congress, including the heads of both Intelligence Committees," then I'm not really sure what more evidence you or I could hope for from such an obviously sensitive, active topic for the time being.
The article addresses this:

"It's natural to look at the phenomenon of declining manufacturing employment as a political failure that can be rectified. But the fact that China has lost more manufacturing jobs than the U.S. over the past 20 years is a strong indication that playing hardball with the Chinese isn't going to do anything to increase employment in the United States.
Rather than a political failure, the decline of manufacturing employment is a natural economic process that many industries, like agriculture, have gone through in past eras. As sectors become better at what they do, they often require fewer people to get the work done."

Additionally, manufacturing is often an environmentally unfriendly process, so there are going to be some big added costs for the government and an increase in the importance of adequate regulation and enforcement. Given that the majority of the added revenue these manufacturers will generate is going to go into companies and individuals that are, on average, very good at hiding profits, the IRS is going to have to be very sharp indeed if the U.S. is to actually benefit from this. It's not going to be like it was in the seventies when a much higher share of gross revenue went to unionized workers who dutifully paid their taxes in full.

On the bright side, more Americans are going to find out what living next to a modern chip fab plant is like. This may cause them to actually reduce the frequency with which they buy new phones.
Because the common perception is that a software product has a marginal cost of near zero and can scale, whereas consulting limits you to your billable hours and requires constantly chasing down new clients. You may debate the merits of that argument and it doesn't take into account product maintenance and support–but I think there is some validity to it.

Also, some SaaS/product success stories take the path of CONSULTING/AGENCY -> PRODUCT -> SUCCESS (e.g. Basecamp, SEOmoz, FreshBooks) but you rarely hear of the reverse.
You can get premade meals at 7-11 in Tokyo for much less than 7 USD.
No. The so called "cookie law" is actually about personal data and doesn't even mention cookies. Using local storage won't help. Some cookie usage is exempt from the notification. The best way to avoid cookie warnings is to not do anything that requires cookie warnings.

"The ePrivacy directive – more specifically Article 5(3) – requires prior informed consent for storage or for access to information stored on a user's terminal equipment. In other words, you must ask users if they agree to most cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) before the site starts to use them."

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
In a lot of countries any motorised vehicle moving in excess of a certain speed is subject to certain safety requirements (such as a helmet or an enclosure, insurance, and a driver's licence).

If you take a bicycle, add a powerful engine, and ride it at 40km/h, then legally speaking you don't have an e-bike; you have a moped or whatever the relevant category is called in the local jurisdiction.

To prevent everyone buying e-bikes from having to deal with safety requirements that are not deemed relevant below 25km/h, the lawmaker's have decided to limit this class of vehicle to those speeds.
If I recally correctly, NIST recently issued guidelines specifically against password expiration/recycling and against forced limits on what characters you can have in your password.
In the USA, it seems all you need is to dream up something.
> Already slow compiles became unbearably slow.

what is unbearably slow ? an hour ? a day ? how many times did you actually have to rebuild the entire code base ? Did you do parallel builds, or see what gains you could get from faster hardware ?

I'm genuinely curious as I've never worked on a codebase that large, and the only time you have to rebuild everything is when someone changes a common library header.
http://www.americanpartycups.com/
There are people living with full blown ego-loss, no "I" there at all. It can be quite hard to get to grips with, like being part of a 2D canvas (the perception of depth-space and also time is extremely warped).

It is fascinating to contemplate that dissociation may be the next stage in human evolution (leading up to ego-death and an emergent hive mind?) and that it may happen on a mass-scale, not through mysticism or magick or psychonautics but technology that has become so ubiquitous nobody can really escape from.
> And as hard as it is to articulate the effects, it may prove even harder to identify its cause.

How is this sensation any different from any other existensial crisis? There are many causes for that, widely discussed both in Western and Eastern Philosophy.

E.g. Sartre's most known work, Being and Nothingness, is very much focused on this. Sartre's Nothingness is, despite what you might think, a positive force and ultimately what provides for our free will; it resembles somehow the tabula rasa of Aristotle, the mind being a clean slate. You can imagine anything you want, completely unconstrained. This is in sharp conflict with Being; as a human in the physical world you are bound by external constraints: time, money, family etc. Most people will deny the conflict, believing that the constraints of their Being are compatible with their Nothingness. Acknowledgement of the conflict provokes existential crisis.

When we step into a VR world, we are brought away from the Being and closer to the true experience of Nothingness. We can literally experience anything, unconstrained. Thus when we return, we are forced to reconsider the Being, to reacknowledge its conflict with our inherent Nothingness.

Accordingly, the difference between this crisis and the ones experienced after the end of any immersive escapist experience, be it cinema, books or even music, is at best a matter of degree.
I did. You're being either obtuse or are communicating your point poorly.

The majority of the story is tangentially related to the statement presented in the headline. It was designed to grab your attention, "wait, why won't the sell it?" But the question in the reader's mind is answered almost immediately.

Obviously it wasn't literally the end of the article. But that wasn't the point of OP.
So I don't do work with low-level stuff (computational physicist here, so different low-level), but I was of the impression things like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi and all these open source maker tools have significantly lowered the barrier too, if not at least the overhead.
I think the article would have been more interesting if it probed into why Russia so far appears to be winning at both recruiting talent and utilizing that talent.

If Arab Spring is the type of offensive cyberthreat that the U.S. has created, it doesn't seem nearly as effective as the fake hacktivist cyberthreat that Russia has established. But maybe that's just because I have an overly US-centric view.
Anything that is robust, dynamic, with a big ecosystem. Python, Ruby, whatever have you. You don't need raw speed since the OS API does most of the work, and the ease of programming would make it more productive. In the end, they added Python anyway for stuff like "compose", so I'm missing the point of using Go for this. The Go code is not even network bound, the ability to get multicore easily is not a bit advantage here since you spawn a new process anyway, so really, why ?
As someone who made a lot of games in Flash that would be difficult to port to HTML5, and a fan of a lot of old Flash content whose creators have pretty much disappeared nowadays, I would like to see more of an effort to preserve and archive these things.

There was a ton of cool creative content that came about thanks to Flash (and Newgrounds in particular). It'd be a shame to lose it all just because people now hate the technology they were built on.
From the tone of the article, it sounds like the author should buy some enduro motorcycle and forget ebikes completely. Problem solved, move along.
By mentioning that they are "ranking members" you make an argument from authority that is predicated on the legitimacy of the government alone, effectively saying "kneel and take whatever they say at face value".

In my view, they are all self-serving career politicians and none have shown any particular reason they should be trusted or respected. They were the ones who urged the knee-jerk reaction in Iraq which has cost trillions of dollars and many lives, among many other bad decisions that they all agree on.
Chrome document.write intervention preventing users from logging off sites
>Notary servers or groups of notary servers may be operated by public organizations, private companies, or even individuals.

So "who watches the watchmen"?[1]

It looks like the "notary servers" eventually become another variation of "certificate authorities" by another name.

If web users rely on a 3rd-party organization (that's not itself a notary server but only a rating agency), it means that the rating agency becomes another variation of CAs.

Every time I've studied this problem, all roads point back to a centralized trust model. Even if a technical solution to decentralized trust is devised, a social emergent phenomenon of centralized trust reappears. (Even Bitcoin with its decentralized aspirations suffered the social phenomenon of consolidating into pockets of centralized mining pools. Mining was theoretically democratic/decentralized but the real-world ability to spend money on GPU cards, then FPGAs, then ASICS is not decentralized.)

>Just like a user picks which search engine their browser will use, they user can also choose what group(s) of network notaries they will trust.

The average web surfer is not going to be going into their browser settings to adjust notary servers. Computer geeks and sophisticated techs like Bruce Schneier and Edward Snowden would tweak those hypothetical notary settings but a billion average users will not do that.

The typical non-tech web surfer is going to outsource the thinking about "which notary servers?" to somebody else. In response, a new centralized model overlaid on top of the notary servers would end up serving those users. Similar to how WebTrust is a reference for CAs.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11464/getting-a-...
State-sponsored actions intended to undermine the basis of our political institutions is a "distraction"? What qualifies as "news" by your standards?
Let me clarify what I meant.
I could be misreading materialism, but the way I understand it is that the universe is essentially a runtime with statically-compiled, singleton objects. The behavior for said objects is determined at runtime.
We both discuss how our jobs will step over moral lines on occasion. It is something I don't like, but not something strong enough to make me quit. If I were in charge I wouldn't be supporting some of these types of advertising.
tl;dr - "ultra advanced cyber persistent cyber threat cyber actors" are sending phishing emails and people are still clicking on them.
> The big problem with 15mph in my opinion is it doesn't allow you to keep up with traffic in 20mph zones.

Neither can normal bicycles though (unless you are physically able to do so, but that too holds true for an e-bike).
I made a tribute to these games: http://aeonalpha.com, it uses TCP/HTTP and the backend is open source: http://fuse.rupy.se/fuse.html
> You may debate the merits of that argument and it doesn't take into account product maintenance and support–but I think there is some validity to it.

That's very true, but I'd also speculate that the vast majority of software products never pay back the flat cost of development.

IndieHackers is a compendium of founders who were successful enough to be worth interviewing, and even the vast majority of them make less from their projects than consulting can make.

> most SaaS/product success stories take the path of CONSULTING/AGENCY -> PRODUCT -> SUCCESS (e.g. Basecamp, SEOmoz, FreshBooks) but you rarely hear of the reverse

Arguably that's because it's so common that it's not worth talking about. I know tons of people who have launched projects which ended up failing, so they fell back on consulting revenue. Far more people than have successful side projects.
I've found that there's generally two levels of paper understanding. The first is achievable in a day, and consists of recognizing what the authors did and roughly how their technique works and why it's different. The second, much more nuanced level of understanding comes when you really dig into the paper and analyze every sentence, and commonly occurs when you need to extend or implement it. The writing is rarely wrong, but many things that are not relevant are either easier said than done or painful but boring implementation details. At that point, you could rewrite their paper from scratch if needed.
Further with the percentages: "200% more" is not "2x" but many seem to write like that. "200% more" would be twice as much (200%) MORE than already existing (100%) for a final value of three times (300%) the original value.
So, Clinton was corrupted, and somebody noticed it, and it is Russians who are to blame?

Huh.
My problem, as a developer, is how much database behaviour seems actively user-hostile.

The horrifying implications of tri-value logic and the lack of a modern type-system to allow us to have a sensible alternative to NULL is infuriating.

The bipolar attitude about how normalizing data is so important but how so much falls apart when you actually have normalized data.

How infuriatingly hard basic, sane code-reuse is. "Don't use scalar UDFs" basically screams out to me "this is a bad programming language".

Is it any wonder that developers go running to NoSQL solutions? It's not "relational algebra" that they're running from - schemaless behavior is just gravy on top of escaping dealing with the muddy, deceptive black-box world of databases.

The database takes care of everythign until it doesn't.
I think sports entertainment and sports fans will exist for many years to come.
My question is really why not choose something really higher level ? Go is like stuck in the middle. If I need very low level, I'd choose rust. If I need high level, I'd choose Python. Go is kinda filling a weird niche between the two and I rarely find a case where I feel like it's the best choice.
>"For instance, opting out of Oracle’s Datalogix, which provides about 350 types of data to Facebook according to our analysis, requires “sending a written request, along with a copy of government-issued identification” in postal mail to Oracle’s chief privacy officer."

This is outrageous. Why is the onus on a user who never gave permission to a data broker in the first place? They deal in digitial domain when it comes to selling your data when it comes to consumers rights and concerns they operate exclusively via snail mail?

Don't expect this to change any time soon. These brokers have the US Electorate in their pocket. Bought and paid for.
For me it's the drive to try to build something that might become something. (I was interviewed for indiehackers but only have 3k recurring revenue, so did not really peak any interest here on HN :)

Sure I can consult 110% and probably earn enough as three full time jobs. But I already have everything. Gadgets are not very exciting when your employer gives you top-of-the-line Macbooks and iPhones. I don't play video games. It's just an itch. Like hobby level soccer players who don't earn a cent yet play matches during weekends and train weeknights. It's a hobby, with an added benefit of actually maybe sustaining a full time developer (lower end of salary tier) in the future.
I don't have a newsletter, but if you send an email to me@morgante.net I'll let you know if I ever start one.
Don't get me wrong, I think IndieHackers is cool and enjoy reading these stories but I also think people who are running very profitable SaaS businesses may be hesitant on doing an IndieHackers interview.

We don't think of our projects as "side projects" and don't really want to be grouped in as an Indie Hacker.
This table seems like a load of crap to me. Perhaps especially the "supporting apps" section. Despite the fact that it's supported in nearly every application which supports image files, they list "21", whereas they say "164" for doc! Also, they list HTML as "outdated or deprecated", and they say that doc is not a complex format; they are out of their minds.

Also, they say "SXW (OpenOffice documents)" even though StarOffice had switched to Open Document Foundation formats before they were branded Oracle Open Office.

Almost everything these "researchers" needed to know to discredit their own paper can be read on Wikipedia with little to no effort.

Almost every value on this chart ranges from bogus to infuriating.
Pending Home Sales Backpedal in November
The closer we come to the end of the Obama Administration, the more disappointed I have become (and this after having voted for him twice).
This was an informative article and not filled with hysteria. I thought it was strange that the convict chose to go to prison rather than work for the FSB; it seems irrational to make that choice. Maybe it's hard to stop working for the FSB; can someone add context?

I see Russian computer network exploitation talent being recruited with far better methods than in the U.S., which is hamstrung by strict security clearance requirements, such as criminal records and drug abuse.

From what I speculate from the article, the Russian FSB and GRU manage to use the risky hires by using government contractors as intermediaries, and there compartmentalize information to a degree that the risky hires only know about the operation they perform. It appears that these hackers have a lot of latitude in their operations.

To contrast this with the U.S. model, the only way a person who isn't eligible for clearance to help is to sell their exploit to a broker and the DoD/CIA/FBI eventually buy it. This means only exploit developers even have the opportunity. Computer crime ex-convicts have to join a consultancy for business clients instead, despite having a good skill set.
The non sequitur here is dizzying.
Was it any different with Iraq WMD?
They're (at least somewhat) passive income, while your consulting work is not.

Once up and running, these projects typically require far less time and effort to maintain, and majority of time is spent in improvements so the revenue grows in the future. Or the owner can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the Four Hour Work Week [tm].

As a contrast, consulting gig is good money while you're working. When you stop (vacation, illness, whatever), the money flow stops as well.
> I've heard exactly zero claims that the leaked emails were falsified in any way.

Podesta and high-ranking Dems have leveled this very charge.

The extent of the DKIM signatures all being true makes this very unlikely.

RSA1024 and SHA-1 can be beaten, but not easily and not in this volume.

It is not E2E from the people authoring the e-mails, so the server maintainer (often Google) could be forging and signing e-mails.

However, again, doing it the volume it would have had to be done is not likely.

The DNC has backed off from the forgery accusations. Besides the asinine nature of the accusations making them look bad, such accusations weaken their grand thesis: Russia hacked them. If they open up the possibility that most or all of the e-mails could have been fabricated whole cloth, then it undermines the argument that Putin pulled off an ingenuous heist of tens of thousands of e-mails.
Somehow it's a good thing ZFS gets to be tried on AWS, it might trigger some bugs.
There's something to be said about people who ask "dumb questions". There are some really great lines about it in the Tim Ferriss/Malcolm Gladwell podcast when Gladwell is talking about how his dad is one of those people that are really great at asking dumb questions.

I think it has something to do with confidence. Confident people don't care too much about being wrong - they are confident in what they know and aren't concerned about being labeled "an idiot."
Are people making enough money to quit their day jobs doing stuff for the Arduino and Raspberry? My impression was that it's all hobbyist.

If there are, please someone let me know.
He is pushing an agenda. The organization that employs him and publishes the article is Koch-funded. (They're a member of the State Policy Network).

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers...

They push the standard Koch agenda- impugn government so that the rich can pay lower taxes, and so corporations don't have to spend money to protect the climate. So this article is standard fare for this type of organization.

As you say it's too bad the article overlooks how much better toilets are today. The article also misses how fuel efficiency regulations failed, and how a high gas tax in 1970 would have been a great way to reduce American petroleum dependence. That example of regulatory failure doesn't often get mentioned by Koch allied organizations, however, because they never want to say taxes are good -- the very wealthy really want to avoid paying tax.
> We don't think of our projects as "side projects" and don't really want to be grouped in as an Indie Hacker.

That's a fair point and maybe something csallen could take into consideration for branding.

The success story for side projects should generally be that they cease to be side projects. I'd be very interested in hearing about more businesses which started as bootstrapped side projects.
Interestingly, one of my 'no' signals is people relying on a DB to do the work for them. Don't know how to index this? Shove it in the DB and query it back.

If you don't have a relational query in mind a relational DB is a bad fit, or at least premature optimization.